Here's a sound reasoning based on trading analysis. Everything can be so, but do not forget about the strong dependence of crypto currency on news, which play not the least role in this business.

I remember this time last year when Ripple overtook ETH marketcap.. Those were the days.

Yes but the kitties were just a warning of what we have to expect in the future if Ethereum doesn't successfully scale. It must scale or it will die. I believe it is that simple.

It won't die but icos and tokens may go to another platform so the price of the token can suffer.

It really needs to scale. Most important thing.

At present, the ether cats also have the influence of Ethereum on congestion? I feel like I have not recovered yet, because my transfer fee is still more expensive than before

No it recovered. I am paying 0.01-0.02$ per transfer and it doesn't take that much time. Did you drop your gwei?

I was writing this post but now checked here https://ethgasstation.info/ and price risen again. It was 1-4 gwei last couple of days.

What happened?

yes there is no doubt that Ethereum is the best project in crypto space
this project makes ICOs very easy and in 2017 most ICOs are eth based er20 tokens
now eth is the next big coin after bitcoin that people are mostly using for payments and funds
maybe someday eth will stand along with bitcoin and eth cap is already up to 73 billion 
greats achievement

LOL ripple is just about to cross 100B market cap. I guess it's about time ethereum shows who the real boss is.

Off course every one about it but things will take time who is completee to whom. Every one will agree ETH has great potential in the market, it will take some to reach higher price in the market.

I would like to be optimistic, but if Eth and Btc do not make drastic changes to their system, their place may be occupied by other more advanced projects, which have a significant bandwidth, transfer speed and cheapness.