many miners go to zcash, from the standpoint of mining vrt looks good, but price ... and a view of the future looks badly oh badly

Nobody has a crystal ball, so you never know.
Some homeless guy can be richer than you are the next week.
We just have to wait it out. Yes i know it has taken ages already, lost my mind quite a few times already but well i just can't do anything about it but wait.
The price will go up, even if no development comes. But how much time we need to wait for that... that is something we don't know!