These kinds of questions come up whenever the bear market starts.<...>. After all it is clear that the market will take little longer time to recover.
With the number of times bitcoin has been
presumed dead, I'm not worried. Bitcoin today, with the level of adoption it has, it can't disappear. What I do think is that, as you point out, it seems that this bear market is going to be worse than the previous ones. At the moment we are already moving around 20,000 USD and below for a while, and I do not rule out that we are going to try new lows.
But, the end? No way.
No one that has been here for a long time and that understands bitcoin will ever think that it will die all of a sudden just because a bunch of so called experts do not miss a chance to spread their lies, with all the surveillance systems established by governments and private companies we are probably the generation of humans with the least amount of privacy to ever live, and bitcoin gives us some of that privacy which has been lost, how can something that gives us that which we lack suddenly lose all of its value? It simply does not makes sense, which is why we treat those claims as nonsensical.