I feel good after reading your post, as I am also the one who is holding DOT from the bear market time, and I am still accumulating it in the current price zone. Well mate, what are your expectations with it? Like, will it make a new all-time high in this altcoin season? But one more thing to notice here: I don't know why DOT keeps us waiting more. Don't you think it's now kinda late, or it should have pumped according to the investors or holders expectations?
Well, we should atleast hope for the best haha, and honestly, I feel relaxed now, like there are DOT holders like you and me still standing with it! 
I don't have the exact numbers, but I believe Polkadot has quite a global fanbase thanks to its cross-chain technology. It's at least enough for DOT to not fade into oblivion this bullrun, especially since the Web3 Foundation has been trying hard to change how the crypto community views Polkadot.
Clearly, Polkadot needs to improve a lot of features, like having its own Layer-1, not just a Layer-0 dependent on users and investors cross-chain asset transfer needs. Parachain auctions used to be the main driver pushing DOT price up in the previous cycle, but it can't be reused in this cycle to push DOT price to a new ATH.
Hope that DOT won't let us down!