I am not sure about all of the points that you are making buwaytress, but I will acknowledge that your point about the "it's too BIG to pump as much as it used to pump" blah blah blah nonsense has been a repeated theme (talking point) to cause people to fail refuse to adequately prepare for UP on a number of occasions, just like you mentioned.. $100 $1,000 and a whole hell of a lot of other price points, too.
Yeah, I saw it myself at 10,000 -- one guy liquidated and left even this forum (but at least his reason was just to enjoy life and stay true to his personal price target), but a few others I was in contact with did that because they thought that really was it. I wasn't around for $10 or $100 but Twitter and memeverse record plenty of instances.
The same nonsense has been asserted to cause people to believe that they are justified in investing in shitcoins also, and largely it seems that bitcoin has been absorbing value in such a way that it has been keeping up with its own various value propositions.. and sure, maybe it cannot pump as much.. so instead of going up 1000x and then 100x in various subsequent time snapshots, it might ONLY be capable of going up 50x in a similar time snapshot, but still does not mean that it cannot continue to have exponential price rises that continue to beat the pants off of a large number of other asset classes and to remain as the best in vestment, even if there might be uncertainties regarding how much it is able to pump in some 4 year cycle or if the cycle might deviate from its earlier time expectations.
+100!
I still can't believe reading the reasonings altcoin shillers make up for their x1000 "analyses". People still can't wrap their heads around the fundamental supply and network reasons for why Bitcoin is valued the way it is, choosing the lazy route of projecting market rationale and capitalization.
"It's only 0.0001% of BTC market cap so of course it can go 10000x and only be 1% of BTC, which is so conservative!"