I think what we had in 2017 is quite different from this year because i don't see we actually entered into a clear bearish season. Altcoins may have experienced the dips but when we talk about bitcoin, the price is still high when compared last 2017. I think its all because bigger institutions have already backed up bitcoin so when it falls, the price won't really drop drastically.
However, the price becomes even more optimistic today and if i'm not mistaken, we will enter a bullish season early this year. Bitcoin and ethereum are definitely on top and hopefully other altcoins will come up surging too so we can witness the whole crypto market becomes green again.
We did see a 50% drop in bitcoin and almost all other coins as well. That is a huge bearish run if I have ever seen one, I understand that it happened all at once and not throughout a whole period, but that also doesn't mean that we should not call it a bear season, from 60k+ prices to nearly 30k prices for two months, that is a bear run. And we have exited that a lot earlier that expected so people are not considering it a bear season I get that, but that doesn't mean that we should totally forget about it and focus on the price right now alone.
What we had was a classic bear run and that is it, nothing that you can excuse could make it not a bear, everyone saw that it was a bear run and everyone talked about how it was a bear run while we were in it. Just because we got out and now trying to push for 50k doesn't give anyone the right to call it not a bear run.