It's not going as well in my opinion, but now we should be around $70k'ish or even higher. Although there is argument that since the cycle has change, as we have reach new all time high prior to the halving. Because in the previous cycles, it's always new all time high after, not before. So the market might have been exhausted that's why almost 4 months moving forward, we have seen major changes in the market.
IMHO, it's going well. Give it time until next year, we still have the entire end of this year and as well as 2025 for everything to see the peak of it. Bitcoin can reach $70k within less than 24 hours based on what we've seen and its movement. But I'd agree to you that it should have been $70k already by this time but that's okay. The peak has been seen too early but that's not the end of it, there's still enough time for it to reach such peaks.
And others are very pessimistic that we might see a good price at the end of the year. Nevertheless, October-December could still be a good month and who knows, we might be over to see this kind of sideways patterns.
They're pessimistic because they're not seeing the good price movement. But since yesterday, we're back to $58k and it's rotating around there and $56k so that's a good sign. Those people who are pessimistic about that we'll not see good EOY, that's fine. I'd agree that we need to be patient and wait until Q4.