If the only thing most people care about is holding, then ETH is just as good as BTC. But other than being held, what can you do with BTC? Its value is 100% related to nothing but public opinion.
At least you can make teeth, jewelry and (most importantly) industrially critical technological parts using gold, so it is a store of value. But you can't use BTC for anything.
ETH is much less secure than BTC. ETH has a larger attack surface and has less hash power behind it. If it can manage to fulfill it's vision and is able to innovate through sharding and scalable blockchains, then ETH does have a interesting value proposition, but those things haven't been proven to work yet. Also ETH's use cases require significantly higher data throughput which clogged the network in late 2017 with only a few dapps running. A lot more "ifs".
Secure but useless. Noone should buy it anymore. Whoever does is just being milked.
I guess I'm being milked 😀
Well, that is my opinion, but I don't mean any harm by saying that.