As much as i wanted for bitcoin to have a high price this coming 2019, i also wanted my alt coins to rise to boost the morale of others holding the same alt coins with me. It's already expected that when bitcoin rise, the major alt coins that i have will also rise.
Most people have a way of thinking like you, expecting the price of bitcoin to increase but what i expected is bitcoin will become a means of payment.
What it is interesting is that once bitcoin is used once again as a medium of payment then its price is going to go up once again since its usefulness as a currency will now be there as well, while right now most people are using bitcoin just as a way to invest or at worst just as a way to speculate and try to earn some short term profits in this market.