I bought some Intense at 200 sats, speculating on some upward price movement on the recent update. Unfortunately that didn't happen. The VPN platform is still under development, wait till it's release to see some price movement.
Despite intense deployment, the coin market has a path of reheating or stagnation.
Whether we need one year or several years is obvious in recent months.
I predict it will take several years and I will sleep again.
I think the old investors scared the new investors away by cashing out when they entered the market. So yes it could take years to get new investors in the market.