I hear both sides of this argument but I think we could rely on very interesting token engineering magic to align $NEAR & $ETH.
For example, the simplest thing could be buying $NEAR with $ETH (gas fees) on AMMs to then burn or use for ecosystem funding.
This simple mechanism aligns ETH && NEAR in a very simple way. Ethereum devs/folks buy/use $ETH and that indirectly adds value to $NEAR …