There have been a large increment in the number of sites that are newly opened based on bitcoins, so yeah this is a year of bitcoins. A year of bitcoins does not just mean that the price go very high.
i like how you think about bitcoin, but it's a fact that the majority of the people look at the price and the hight of the profit they made to call it the year of bitcoin. they don't care about the adoption and the technical side of bitcoin which are very important as well. it's pure selfishnes from people.