I think this year will be worse than 2017. It looks like the market has not recovered yet and the price has already fallen to $ 350.
haha, worse than 2017.... I could have told you that before the year even had started... 
2017 was THE crypto year and ETH was played a major role in it. I don't think we will ever see another year like that with the total market cap rising by a factor of 30 (>3000%!)
The question for ETH and crypto in general is now: where is the bottom? and when can we go up again? It might take another year or two until this will be case...