I wouldn't call it expectations since most experts are making their own basis for what will happen next and what to do on a certain situation, they are taking action by results. They don't rely on or put too much expectation on things since most of their calculation happens a lot.
I am totally agree with you, you are right about experts expect to much to their expecatitions because they try hard to analyze a possible way to know how, when and why bitcoin is volatile. Many experts making their own basis to proved the existence of bitcoin, let we say that it has really a facts about their analyze because some of them are true.