Bear market is profitable when you have money lying around. Without spare money to buy crypto at low prices the bear market is frustrating. It is profitable for traders who already predicted the bear market and saved enough money to buy
Bear market is necessary for the market to reset itself. It can only be beneficial if you have a plan to increase your portfolio during the season. Unfortunately, the bear season will come and go and some people will still not take advantage of it.
They didn't take advantage of it since they are afraid that it will dump more than they can't imagine, And mostly this mindset always comes to newbies. If they just understand on how the market works especially with the top alts in them market for sure they will think about that the bear market is good opportunity to buy some good coins at the cheapest price since once bull market season came for sure they will be drag by bitcoin and gain more value.