Has Polkadot beaten Ethereum to the "first sharded blockchain"?

With the advent of parachains, it seems Polkadot was first to deploy a proper sharded blockchain and some of those shards are already running EVM's. It seems DOT's architecture permits heterogeneous shards too, which means not all shards need to run the same consensus logic (unlike Ethereum 2's planned sharding).

How is it possible that with all the funding and network effect that Ethereum has that it has been beaten to the punch here with Sharding and next-gen tech? Ethereum developers seem unable to release any significant core milestones since like 2014 (the Beacon chain is not really anything great except a smart-contract at this point).

For many observers, it seems like ETH has lost it's momentum ever since Gavin Wood and co left the eco-system. It sure does seem like that momentum has resumed with the Polkadot/Kusama eco-system. I remember how far ahead ETH was in the beginning (I've been here since the very early days), but now it's lagging badly.

Will there be a flight of developers, development and funding from Ethereum to Polkadot at some point in the future? Where is the Smart money betting in terms of Ethereum vs Polkadot?