looking at price 2019 can't be better than 2017 but looking at mainstream public and company awareness it will be much better ~ Facebook, Nike, Jaguar, Tesla?
Correct. People learned about cryptocurrencies more. Naturally, 2017 hype helped them to do it. Even those, who did not take part in the fuss of that time, now are thinking about investing in crypto.
That hype is bad for investors that time as they witness the price dump afterwards, that causes them to panic selling.
Now that price is slowly rising, I think this time is better than 2017 because if we pump harder this time and bitcoin reach a new ATH, if it corrects, it might not be as devastating as before, maybe a major correction could take place, but not going to dump as hard as in 2017.