I am one of those who have HodL Ethereum since the price is 600 USD and I will continue to hold Ethereum forever.
It is appropriate and very feasible for Ethereum coins to be able to rise again like other coins because I see Ethereum has a lot of fans.
Just look at so many Dapps that are already connected to Ethereum and Ethereum is very open to the latest applications that are able to work with ERC20.
There's a huge community for Ethereum and that's why even now, it's on the top 2. The usage of it has been almost in everywhere and too many projects that were new before became popular today.
The merging will happen soon and that's related to the price pump that we've seen recently. I think if it continues and becomes a success, there will be a little dump but other than that, everything is going to be fine and good which will impact the price to shoot up.