The "mass adoption" needed is a delusion. The market caps should tell you that it'll go whenever, wherever it wants to. I also doubt VC's, Banks, and others whom is fueling the infrastructure race wants their positions to be diluted by the masses. Despite the rise and fall the majority of bitcoins biggest wallets did not decline, hence no dumping by biggest shareholders. Market manipulation is easy in this space, human sentiment is even easier to manipulate.

I do believe the forces at work are more sinister, and devious than previously imagined.

Awww you care about others potential loss... This is my face -_-