Only whales can put the pressure, but no one owns the whole market even the exchanges because they also depend on the demand and supply as a law of the price movements. With bitcoin, everyone who have bitcoin can actually be called the owner of the market simply because bitcoin rules the whole cryptomarket. Have focus on owning more coins, make it a habit and your goal and maybe one day you will become a whale too because everything is possible in this market.
Your point is absolutely clear man, there is no one that own the market other than us, because without us, the market will just be an empty market and even the whales that we think are controlling the market will not be able to do so because if you check the ratio of whales in the market to ours, you will see that we are still very much more than the whales, I mean the average investors in the market.
Whales are able to control the market now because they are rich, I know, but the opportunity they have got to control the market is because the bitcoin is still very volatile. Look at the stable coins, how are they not able to control stables coin because it is less volatile, so bitcoin market will be fully controlled by us too in the future when it becomes a stable coin too.