The Ethereum team has already postponed the Ethereum 2.0 update until January 31 next year. I hope that by then the deposit contract will be filled to the maximum. I believe that this very process is an indicator of the attractiveness of Ethereum in the cryptocurrency market today.
Im not sure about this, people will not easily change their opinion about that. Afaik if this time the result of ethereum that has been depositing into the deposit contract is really small compared what already expected by so many holders or speculators. That means the performance of ethereum 2.0 is not so good as it can't attract people to join to be validators in ethereum 2.0 network.
The locked period has been making them all feel so bad about that.