I think Elon Musk will somehow make Dogecoin $ 1. But I don't know when. I don't want to have much confidence in Elon either. He moves like a madman.
He is an ordinary human who has more financial capacity than other humans, so why believe in him? Moreover,
the benefits he got were never given to anyone, including you too.
sadly many investors are interested in Coins just because they are played by someone but don't see how the project development and usecase Coins itself. Doge is indeed quite good but there are still many better ones to keep in the long run. As you said, we really can't trust anyone in Cryptocurrency because people who have a strong financial can do whatever he wants.