Bitcoin is "digital gold", prolly has less use than physical gold. Ethereum powers it's own network where people pay gas fees and hundreds of coins and millions if not billions of dollars are moved around on a weekly basis. Yet bitcoin is worth more. Why? Because of marketing. Word of mouth is the best marketing there is. You looking for a product and have two choices, one you don't know about and one you heard a friend or family member talking about. The second one is the one you gonna have more interest and lean towards cuz it's got some familiarity. Now that can't be used to compare btc and eth but it's like if the product you had no prior knowledge about was a better product than the one you did, yet the one you did was more popular. The one that has more people interested gonna be more popular and as more people talk about it, the popularity grows. I mentioned Shib on here maybe in mid March, didn't get much response or traction. Once it started gaining momentum and popularity, then people started checking it out and getting into it. Word of mouth spread and so did the coin. That's how powerful word of mouth is.