It is true that not all will return to the top - even altcoins will tend to be difficult to recover if they are not trusted by investors or the community.
For example, Mantra coin (OM) from $6 suddenly far below $1 the current price is $0.4 which has disappointed its investors, while the team continues to argue this is not their fault.
So you have to be selective in choosing altcoins, don't become a victim like the Mantra coin which harms many investors.
The investors are not disappointed only long term investors are disappointed, and yeah the team was not behind this, they have shown that centralized exchanges and big investors sold their chunks of OM token, the amazing thing was how all of them come to sell at a single point.
The analysis has showed that, the price of Om was already exhausted at that price therefore smart investors knew its fuel is finished and now it will dump like it dumped ones. They sold and a domino effect started and the impact was so big that no one expected it.
- 2 days ago the price of this OM was pumped, too bad I didn't monitor it, I still bought it last week, then now its price is at 0.36$, so I think its a good sign to buy just for my opinion that I still believe in this OM and probably others are also buying it even for short-term.
Now with the price of bitcoin, I hope I can at least make a profit on the altcoins that I have so far in my wallets, which is enough to buy land
and houses again as an investment.