It looks like all the signs for it to go up was there, and for some reason it went down.
What signs? Can you share those signs that the ETH price is supposed to go up prior to and after the merge?
Normally when something like this happens, the price goes up and even about this, back in 2020 december the price went up because phase 0 of this started, even caused all the coins to go up at the time, we were hyped about everything back then and we hyped this as well.
That's the wrong mindset. What happened is executing a part of the technology.
There's no direct effect in terms of the market price.
By all means this could have been the start of the bull run, its such a great thing and for some reason people just disliked it, why?
Simply, it's hard to build hype on the current market trend. The merge happened in the middle of the considered
"bear market" that's why it's difficult for those who will attempt to pump the price to trigger the bullish movement.
We should not look at the current price but rather the good effect of the merge in the long run.