Comment by SnowProblem

Ethereum has the developer mindshare and tooling today, no doubt. But ETH also has fundamental scalability problems which are pushing out smaller value transactions. The team behind CryptoKitties for example left to develop their own chain that scales better. My belief is that UTXOs and the Bitcoin model are going to be simpler and more efficient at representing state and state transitions because it can be done locally and on one chain, rather than globally and sharded across multiple.