here is nothing special about Solana or its technical stack. The reason for its success is that it 10x'd in price over the last year. It 10x'd because it was consensus to be short $SOL in 22-23 (post SBF/FTX). 

$SOL holders got rich and invested back in $SOL ecosystem tokens. Those tokens 10-100x'd. Then those devs/bagholders got rich. 

Now they come on here and virtue signal about rust, anchor, firedancer, parallelization, SVM, or EVM fragmentation. But the average meme punter couldn't tell you the difference b/w SVM or EVM. 

The short OI that SBF created has more to do with Solana's success than any of its technical stack.