But that's how things have been all this time

Well, not about the halving specifically, of course, but just about anything crypto related. People get all worked up when the price first goes up and then goes down (it works in reverse order as good). As an illustrative example and in line with the thread topic, it can be claimed with a degree of certainty that virtually any bull run inevitably ends with a bull trap, and the higher the price rises, the deeper will be the trap. So even more people will get excited and blinded to "the realities of the market and what it can achieve in a short amount of time", as you put it