Part of the reason is bad timing (investors will want to at least temporarily park in BTC for the halvening), part of the reason is Ethereum is losing its luster due to people wisening up, another reason is the advent of new clones and rootstock coming on board , and another reason is the fact that a majority of the coins were created for free or purchased at much cheaper rates where many investors will be tempted to take profits when they see eth sliding. What sustains a support is not just confidence but the average of where people purchased the coins at because many don't invest to sell for a loss. In this case most of the 79 million ether was premined or sold for much cheaper which gives a strong indication that ether could potentially and is likely to drop much further.
Your primary mistake is in thinking the relationship of those factors is a price of sub-0.01 during this wave down. It doesn't work like that.
