Yes this year is not good for bitcoin, from starting itself there is no significant growth in bitcoin price. Bitcoin is in downtrend only and one more month is enough for end of this year. But still it struggles to increase, so we expect the massive growth this year. The chances are lesser to achieve $10k itself, we cannot expect the growth like last year.
You are right, but there are still possibility of pumping soon, we just need to have more new big investors and more new big good news to come and the hype will start again.