You forgot that people tend to look for an asset to save their money. That means most people are looking for things that are easy to liquidate into fiat and the price wont really swing big time. You know how thing goes with bitcoin, we have suffered alot of big swing for years and alot of people stay away from bitcoin because of that
Its a fact.
There is no asset in the world that is safe if you are dumb enough to invest at its peak and that is the case you are talking about, if anyone invested in bitcoin when the price rallied and reached its peak, who is to be blamed. Is there any asset in the world that is safe from that ? .
The word safe in terms of asset is not as assured as we use them, that only means that if we are talking about assets some of them are considered safe as the word itself means "low risk". So the question, is there a safe asset? YES there is. However on the case with bitcoin, it is not safe at all coz in bitcoin what you need to invest first is the trust of yours, before the money as you have said there are people who are dumb investing when the price is already at the peak. Just imagine a scenario where a friend of yours climb on a mountain then they invited you to join but you refused, the next day you'll see their picture posted on the internet, you see their lovely faces with joy at the peak then you decided to go alone, you bumped to your friends while they are going down, then it rains. Regretting isn't it?
In the case of bitcoin everyone had the opportunity to invest in it when the market when down and if you were not smart enough to invest at that time then there is no point in complaining about it.
I must say other than patience, one vital key is the trust. It's better to try than to feel sorry.
If there is a recession then no asset is same from that situation and that includes bitcoin.
A recession is a collapse, no asset can get away with it even bitcoin, wait who knows what will happen with bitcoin? no one does.