I doubt that I have ever said that the BTC price is for sure going up or even giving too many shits about when it happens, if it happens.
However, I have continued to say that it seems that ongoingly there are pretty decent chances that the BTC price will go up and continue to go up, so financially you are better off to have bitcoin rather than not having bitcoin, but you can choose for yourself if to have bitcoin and if so, how much to have, and if you choose to have bitcoin, then you have to figure out a way to get it, and if you are hoping to have greater advantages in terms of having had built your bitcoin holdings, then maybe you would like to figure out various strategies to be as aggressive as you can in terms of bitcoin accumulation, but not so aggressive that you end up overdoing it and having to sell some bitcoin (or suffer in other ways) merely because you overly did your bitcoin buying.
Your cautious yet optimistic stance regarding possibility of significant increase in Bitcoin price is quite understandable. As an informed and experienced Bitcoin investor you are well aware of that predicting Bitcoin future price of Bitcoin is very challenging task. Various factors, such as regulatory developments, general state of global economy and prevailing monetary policies, can impact all risky assets including Bitcoin.
Nevertheless, we can reasonable anticipate that there are favourable odds for significant price appreciation in 2024, which marks the year of Bitcoin's halving event