My subjective opinion (let the haters laugh) is BTC = e-gold, one of the means of accumulating capital on a par with gold (although the scale is smaller). Bitcoin will never be thrown into the garbage pit for devastation, because BTC-billionaires have found for themselves a real gold mine that will never dry out.
sure. They are the ones who dictate prices now ...
yes, a huge number of people hold and trade the first crypto, but only the whales dictate the rules. By all means, they will hype the BTC and promote it to the masses.