We would need a net influx of new crypto enthusiasts (or at least buyers users).  The whales pushed when we were sagging around 12K but the market just isnt there right now.  IMO it doesn't help us long term if we hit high numbers on a bubble like that again until we start having more bridges to normal/everyday uses for the  avg user.  Ive been in crypto over a year now and the other day I got hung up when I couldn't get BTC out of my electrum wallet for some reason.  It was frustrating as hell, there's no direct help for it, and Im an experienced user.   Like John Oliver said about Bitcoin-  it's “everything you don't understand about money combined with everything you don't understand about computers,”
We're still way out ahead of the average users level of comfort imo