The price of the coins depends on the trend in them.
If there is a trend its price is growing.
Now morden trand is differen dogs coins. Their price is growing and people buy dogs coins to have more profit.
But now appear a cats coins like this https://twitter.com/angrykittytoken/status/1479171278171000833
May be the trend of 2022 will be a cats coins
The problem is when fall bitcoin all other cryptocurrency markets will fall too and it will be no profitable coins at all.
But I agree with you that after the fall will be the rise of the market.
I agree that the price of cryptocurrency depends a lot on the price of Bitcoin.
If in 2022 the market will fall it will be no profitable altcoins at all.
Hope in 2022 the market will rise.