Projects launched in current bullish crypto market run don't need to depress if they are not getting due attention. Since majority of investors are busy with BTC, ETH, BNB etc right now. All you need is patience and consistency to keep your project alive till this bull run is over. Investors will turn back to legitimate projects once this bull run is over.
Deflationary tokens will take some time to go up. since they are launched with maximum supply and as the supply will go down price will go up. Main goal for dev team is to keep project alive till the time supply is decreased to create scarcity of cons. If they can do this, nothing can stop the coin from going to moon.