The potential is definitely there but this potential doesn't seem to be able to turn into momentum because of the weird sell pressure that continues to exist due to the terrible economy that exists around the world and is worsening as the recession deepens.
Since the pandemic, it's nearly five years (6 more months till the complete five years) since its outbreak in Wuhan China, the whole world economy is in crisis. There is no exception in any country because the world now is flat with digitalization and globalization.
Governments try to mislead us with terms like Technical recession, soft landing but the fact is citizens are suffering a lot with what has been happening last five years. Whatever term and announcement they use, Technical recession or recession; hard landing or soft landing, citizens actually don't feel comfortable with their lives and finance recent years.
We can "touch" the ATH again in the near future but I don't think we can expect a bull run anytime soon. At least no in the same way as we are used to when we talk about "bull runs".
People lack of patient characteristic to succeed in this market. They want to see the bull run comes as fastest as possible and feel like they can not wait some more months to see bull run.
For people who don't have good finance, borrow money to invest, have bad finance, risk and capital management, I can understand their lack of patience because they don't have much time for waiting. For people who belong to another type of investors, invest with own money, it's bad if they don't understand market cycles, psychology cycles, and can not wait a bit longer time to enjoy bull runs.
Even this cycle is different than past ones, bull run will come when most of people feel tired and gave up.