Do you consider the price of Bitcoin to be more important than its purpose?
No definitely not, in my opinion is the purpose of Bitcoins 10 times more important than the price. For day traders it's all about the price, they are looking for the short term gain as they buy and sell each day. For me it's about the long term prosperity of Bitcoins. I stopped actively trading bitcoins a long time ago and joined the HODL community. It's much less stress and requires not a lot of time to buy and hold longterm. The price of Bitcoins is always going to fluctuate, as does any other asset in the world. But as long as there is a strong purpose behind bitcoins the longterm trend is going to be upwards. If bitcoin would lose its purpose, or become less dominant as the number one crypto currency, then also the price is going to be affected. Short term traders and long term investors need to work together to keep the bitcoin market active, if one of these groups would leave the market than the bitcoin price would collapse, and not recover if there is no new purpose for it.