BCH is and always has been pointless. Its only purpose is price speculation. It offers nothing beyond that.
So I would expect halving probably will cause a price increase, as it would likely increase speculation.
However, longer term I would expect the price to slowly drop towards zero.
I don't care about the nonsense that you talk about BCH, as an investor, we should be more concerned about the opportunity that BCH can bring us, and here, as you said, BCH is a speculation on price, the value of BCH is here, as long as the whales continue to push and manipulate prices, BCH still has a chance to create strong waves in the market, and we can through that to make money. Speaking of the BCH halving event, I'm still very skeptical because Litecoin has a similar thing and the value is still falling, so we need more time to look at the BCH signals.