I assume they don't agree with you :
http://www.coindesk.com/2016-bitcoin-best-year/I'm not sure how it will be a boring year with the halving block reward and the official opening of OpenBazaar honestly , and there will be more proabbly
yes opening of openbazaar already changed price of bitcoin, and i am sure that it will change in future too, because i think that it it is most important bitcoin site so far
and i don't think that it will be boring because of halving, everyone hopes that price will rise and buys bitcoins so it will be interesting to see if price will really go up