Perspective: 4 years ago NANO was the same price as today but was sitting on 40th place by marketcap, now is out of top 200

Nano is today 249th cryptocurrency by market cap according to coinmarketcap.com

4 years ago, on 15 Jan, 2019, Nano was on 40th place but the price was the same as today.

If you look just at the price you would say nano is the same as 4 years ago, nothing changed and if you invested then you wouldn't have lost any money (disregard the inflation). If you look at the tech, nano is probably more reliable now as it passed a spam attack and some measures have been implemented. But I don't necessarily want to talk about nano, it is just the project I followed and for witch I know the price evolution.

Still, 4 years, nano lost 209 places and has the same price, XRP was 2nd place then and now is 6th place (XRP lost only 4 places). The price of xrp is just +20% compared to 15 jan 2019: now is $0.40 and at that time was $0.33.

What conclusions do you draw from this? What is your take?