Everyone here wants a new ATH everyday. No exceptions. But, practically market is doing its best. There are sometimes the whales are manipulating but now a days those chances are very less. $10k still remain a big barrier physiologically. Hence we may expect range bound for some more weeks.
Not really. I was openly "disappointed" when Bitcoin just kept pushing past ATHs on its rampage last year. Chiefly because I hadn't acquired my personal target. Every time I earned more, BTC price just kept meaning I earned less coins, the target seemingly impossible to achieve. So it was bittersweet at times to see the fall, I actually hit my own target this year thanks to I guess what one might call incredible discounts on the ATH.
But yeah of course, we all secretly want BTC to make it impossibly big, even if our sights are set on future dates years away. The market is doing its best, as you say, my only concern is that it simply won't stay still to consolidate.
The only way you could be truly disappointed (I understand that you were not, of course) by Bitcoin crushing ATHs in the second half of 2017 is if you had been shorting. Remember that dude who lost gravely by shorting something like 600 BTC when Bitcoin's price was at a measly level of $1000 earlier that year? This is what real disappointment means in practice. When people feel kinda disappointed when they sold too early while Bitcoin continued to surge, this is greed at its best and max. But this is nothing compared to real losses which you would suffer if you shorted at $1000 and then your account got wiped away with your positions liquidated forcedly by the exchange.
Just a few days, many people are sitting on the fire, it's hard to believe it's happening so fast. 
