Your speculations sounds unfair, though the market have seen retracements and ETH has been stunted and sluggish in it's price movement, I still believe it has something promising.
Here is something about that promising potential.
In January 2018 Ethereum was at $1428 at Bitstamp, in 2025 it's at $1452 as we speak!
So basically, anyone that would have hold ETH from before 2018 and not sold wouldn't have made gains even to cover annual inflation, not inflation over 7 years!
What about me who has bought ETH above $2500?

And now it's still declining, if the price of ETH is the same as 7 years ago then this really sucks meaning we're not covering any profit at all now.
Well people around here will say:
- hold for another decade
- it was your fault for not doing your research
Me, as a truly honest man, I can say that you're a bit screwed! Even if you recover your investment, I will be peanuts compared to other coins and I am starting to think it might not even cover the inflation. Besides, $2500 might be misleading, If I had bought ETH when it was priced like that and the euro was nearly on par with the $, now I would need $2750 to have the same amount in euros.
Well just think about those that got in at 4500 or higher and staked a few coins they are fucking crushed.
ETH = 1647 and you can stake it to get 4-7%
BNB = 597 and you can stake it to get 3-11%
Solana = 131 and you can stake it to get 4-9%
stake numbers vary.
so three coins that pretty much do the same thing. So no reason for Eth to grow faster than the others.
I would guess 2026
ETH = 1800-2000
BNB = 800-1000
Solana = 250-350
Eth would grow the least.
and I am assuming the musky trumpeter does not fuel shit any more than he already did.
Lets be positive and say Trumps whales smokes and does amazing.
BTC Doge and POW will do better as they burn energy.
ETH is off POW and will likely not do as well since they went green.
ETH may need a new USA and a new Russia as both USA and Russia want to melt the ice at this moment in time.