We are expecting too much from bitcoin in just a short time of about 13years since it's creation. By logic bitcoin is just a teenager who has not yet attained the status of adulthood like the forex market for example, yet it has penetrate and saturate the financial market (global economy) becoming the talk of the town in the internet like it has been here 50 years ago.
The high expectations should be moderated so we can be able to appreciate the milestone growth bitcoin price has made. Commensurable with its age bitcoin price is doing great and only those who are not highly expectant setting their price scale at a great distance of 100k, 150k, 200k will care to appreciate the feat, some even predict as high as $1M in the next bull run and when the price doesn't go even close as expected they complain that the performance of bitcoin has been poor.
And this can be so discouraging for investors that planned on long term hodling with such a high expectancy. Learn to treat bitcoin like a teenager that's just coming up and still has its future ahead of it and stop the unequal comparison with other financial instruments like gold that have been around for decades.
I don't blame people that are expecting much from bitcoin, I think it is because they got spoilt y the return of bitcoin and they are already use to such kind of lifestyle. Look outside crypto, there is no any other investment that has given a return like crypto and still remain functional, most of the ones that did were Ponzi schemes and they are long collapse and gone but after 13 years of servicing humans worldwide, it is as if its still starting like it has not done anything for the people.
Another problem is that over the years, some institutional investors were jealous of how bitcoin has produce young millionaires and they don't like it, they have called bitcoin to be dead many times but it still standing to day, they have decide to join the movement, that is why we see representatives from BlackRock and the rest fighting for ETF, these people are the new investors in town and they are on the verge for the same profits it has given people in the past but festival is a thing of the past, bitcoin will grow but the days of making 400% in two weeks is gone except for shitcoins.
Hold, if you must and trade if you must trade but nothing is going to stand in the way of bitcoin, it might not be soon but I know that it is when you don't expect the growth it does appreciate in value. For example, look at people that bought the botton by now shold have 2X there investments by now, this is how sweet been patient is with bitcoin.