Very true.
The fact is that this pump was spread out through a long period unlike the 2013 pump whcih was only a few days, and then came the dump. Basically everyone in the community knew very well at that time that the price was unsustainable, with such a high mining reward as well.
Right now we have just got block halving a year or so back, and miners are having to generate more profit because of the new block reward. And it is obvious for now that bitcoin price is thriving.
As for the localbitcoins volumes, it is largely as a result of the Chinese. Everyone is moving there to trade right now because it is anonymous and the central exchanges have just been basically robbed of business by the government recently.
I can see bitcoin trading moving towards a more P2P model, which is what Satoshi originally intended.