I remember those days as well, after bitcoin crashed all the way to 3000 during the bear market of 2018 it remained close to those levels for years, and there is a possibility this could happen again.
However I do not think the chances of this are high, the circumstances are completely different now than what they we are back then, with the most important being the governments and their current monetary policy, after all even if governments all around the world are worried about inflation they will no be able to stop themselves from printing more money if they need it, which will increase the inflation and the price of bitcoin in the short term.
Yeah, those horrible days were still fine for bitcoin. Imagine seeing bitcoin at near 3k levels and how you would be scared about it, but the reality is that if you bought at 3k and sold at 69k then you would have made 23x return on bitcoin, and that is the biggest coin.
There are still some other smaller ones that made even more profit. I know that it is not that easy, and I know that it wasn't exactly 3k and wasn't exactly 69k, so call it an even 20x if you want, but it was possible. That is super awesome and shows you even the bad days mean good things for the future.
We the ones that have been here long enough to see it understand this, but unfortunately many of the newbies do not get it, they think the price of bitcoin is too high and instead decide to invest in all kind of altcoins that have no future simply because they are cheaper.
And this is a mistake, after all the maximum price that bitcoin could reach is still unknown, one of the earlier predictions about the price of bitcoin was 10 million dollars and even that prediction could come up short if we take into account inflation and many other factors, this show us the potential for bitcoin is still massive so even those that buy now can make huge profits, as long as they are willing to hold their coins for long enough.