No one nows the future and everyone tries to predict it on the basis of knowledge or agendas they have, some do have some idea that the internet will be adopted worldwide but never shared due to specific agendas, and even AI-integrated chat bots, survelance systems, management systems are in use of big companies, governmental authorities even way before it came in from to public.
No one can predict future but we are living and have to speculate what will happen next.
Very fortunately that we are not in a year like 2009 when Genesis block was mined by Satoshi Nakamoto. Time flies fast and we already have 15 years of Bitcoin existence to assess its technology, blockchain, use cases, utility and its survival through some bear markets and more special, some black swan events.
Every thing is being manipulated and BTC is also but to not that extent due to its of course decentralization factor. Overall, I will say, BTC really have enough potential to grow even if the ETFs will be rejected, but hey only the short term profit takers will be going to make wrong decisions, the one with long term plans are not.
If it is saying about market, Bitcoin market is similar to other markets, there are always existence of market manipulation. As an investor, we must have very long term view, and ignore short term volatility, market manipulations and look at more important fundamentals which make up value.
Price can be manipulated but value can not be manipulated. The challenge is how to assess value of an asset.
With Bitcoin, I strongly recommend to look at this one