Personally the main reason behind this manipulation is not only because of Bitcoin SV nor Bitcoin ABC, but instead, it is all because of those shitcoins.
we have more than 1000 coins or even 10.000 coins right now.
it is too big for our current investor to handle it all if right now it is only 10 coins on our total market. the price will not go this down because the distribution is very wide. and the manipulator won't have this kind of power to pump and dump the price.
This is very true. We've always had shitcoins but etherium unleashed torrents of tokens and crooked ICOs. This served to dilute the market and those that got burned never returned. Had we concentrated on bitcoin god only knows what it would be worth today.
Unscrupulous, greedy, and power hungry folk are working hard to destroy world changing technology.