This is not about seeing Ethereum being stalked, if we look more closely on other crypto markets, we should be able to bring out something to say from how we have seen a bear market few days back, which could also means that not only Ethereum was affected in this, but the whole crypto market has been on it the same way as many others, if we can have bitcoin close to $70,000 and above, we are going to see Ethereum rising above $4,000 as well.
surely, but if the ETF doesn't turn out to be good, the price of ethereum might further stagnate even worse declining though, the fact that ethereum hasn't hit an all time high level of the previous bullrun is kinda worrisome at certain extent but i'm sure that it will some day anyway when bitcoin climbing back up to $70k as you say.
though I guess the reason why ethereum isn't as dazzling as bitcoin in term of growth might be due to the fact that there's new contender appear that might eats up eth market cap that is solana where its favoured by many people becasue the low gas fee despite the blockchain of solana itself so crowded it got outage on several occasions.
make me wonder if maybe its best to switch over to solana for investment since solana hasn't reaching as big market cap as ethereum, though maybe its just better to stay holding ethereum the restaking protocol thats currently trending is a good opportunity to make profit while holding anyway.