since many analysts don't see that there will be any significant changes this year,
I fail to agree with this sentence in your post, all other things you've said may be correct but this, because bitcoin analysts, influencers, and others that do the same thing as them can't see or know anything out of the ordinary, in short they create their analysis and predictions to boost their followers and to make money from them, you have to do your own research and avoid following what analysts or influencers advice their followers to do.