ETH and almost top coins are certainly experiencing difficult times, this is because the market is drops so that what happens to the drops is generally an impact, if the eth drops then we can be sure that other coins are also drops, because the current ETH position is the second strongest After Bitcoin.
Yeah you are right, if we were in a bull run, the merge would have increased the price of ETH a ton, and people would be cheering for it, because during the bull run whatever you do is considered to be a good thing. But, because we are in a bear market right now, it's obvious that we are not going to really get anything special out of it, and that kind of upsets me.
The same thing that would be good in the eyes of many people, could become an unimportant thing suddenly because of the market condition. I hope that one day we will get over this, and be in the bull run again and we could see how great ETH could become, 10k+ price is not impossible for ETH in the next 2-3 years.