In this year, Bytecoin has very low volume with more than $70,000 was exchanged in last 24 hours. It is a small volume in BTC but not actually small in $. The biggest exchange for Bytecoin is Gate.io
I don't think Bytecoin will get $1 for one BCN. Never.
Yes. Trading volume is extremely low because investors and traders are focused on other big players in the crypto/blockchain space. It's all about money these days. Despite BCN's privacy features, other coins have fared better because of their aggressive marketing/promotion efforts. I guess this has made Monero much more successful than Bytecoin itself. It's an oddity these days, since most forked projects tend to stay behind the original project. Consider how both Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin SV have been unable to take Bitcoin's place on the market since their inception. It's all a matter of providing active development, innovation, and real use cases for the mainstream world in order to gain massive traction on the market.
Nonetheless, crypto behaves in strange and bizarre ways. Who knows if Bytecoin gains traction sometime in the future? Early adopters will be lucky if BCN ever hits $1 per coin. Back in the day, people never believed a joke cryptocurrency like DOGE would hit an ATH of $0.08. Yet, it happened making many early adopters filthy rich. The same thing might happen with BCN if it remains actively traded on the market. As long as the community supports the project every step of the way, nothing else matters. Just my opinion