Bitcoin is an online currency. Even if started with a lower price. Now its value is beyond the reach of ordinary people. But, nowadays, it seems that Bitcoin is losing its popularity.Because, not receiving validity in low income countries. It may be the main reason.
You are wrong, by looking at the short term price, you cannot tell the real progress of BTC.
Instead, look more on its fundamentals and its long term price trends so you will see the reality.
The fact that BTC was dead many times and its value now at over $8K, this tells people are still investing on it.
Actually if you do some research there's a lot of factors you can see that would tell you how strong bitcoin is, the trading volume alone would tell something positive to us that people are still trusting on it.
one big news is that BAKKT bitcoin futures was launch, and that's a big company adopting into BTC.
And some good news relating to it,
https://www.ccn.com/bakkt-bitcoin-futures-volume-soars-800-percent/