The bitcoin price has been much less volatile than in the past. It is in a tight range of $400 to $430.
I wouldn't say price stagnation is permanent. Most likely it is only momentarily.
Prime rise is to be expected. We should now be in a phase of anticipation, some serious price movements are meant to happen before the halving.
As you can see now you see also that there will be more people that is getting to use Bitcoin because the value of Bitcoin is also now rising slowly and that is quit perfect for the people who already have Bitcoin.
The only thing that you have to know that it can takes a really long time until the value will be more in the future.