I'm coming along towards this opinion too. I feel like Ether started out as a hip hop thing we (fans, nerds, rappers, etc) talked about and then at some point it entered mainstream consciousness to the point where today you can hear an Asian guy on ESPN use it as a verb to describe a sports event. Whereas with this battle everything started on such a higher level because of how much bigger rap music is today culturally, plus the way social media spreads everything so quickly.
Then you add in the fact that it quickly became a hit record that clubs are STILL blasting. Not even on some flavor of the month shyt. It's been over a month and I still faintly hear that bassline in the distance coming from outside my crib's windows. How many hit diss songs have there ever been? Back 2 Back and Sweet Home Alabama are the only other ones I can think of lol.