I've been bullish on the USA and the dollar for a long time, only because I wanted to be on the winning team. They keep winning and fading it just hurts those that do.
You still miss the point. You've gone now from Sol comparison to BTC.
The point is only about ETH and the ETH ecosystem only. If your ETH play is to buy, hold, stake and wait for the ETF which is what most have been doing then it was the wrong set up. The ETH set up was to buy/hold and provide liquidity for L2s, and restaking. That was gravy train and it has already left the station.
It depends on your timeline. Go look at the charts and zoom out. You're calling doom and gloom and painting a rosy picture for the dollar which is doomed.
I made no play. I mined ETH for 4 years and bought some tokens 4 years ago. I made one trade when Elon was pumping Doge. I sold around 6 ETH and bought around 293,000 Doge with it. Then the price started going up to the point where, within a day, I could sell half of the Doge and buy back my original 6 ETH. If I had waited a few months longer I could have sold all that Doge for 45 ETH, or 3 BTC. All thanks to Elon - lol! Timing is the tricky part.
Here's the ETH chart. Just like Bitcoin and any other cryptocurrency it's seen ups and downs. But overall the trend is up relative to the dollar. I am not a day trader. I couldn't care less what it does from day to day. If it crashes 25%, or even 50%. Makes no difference to me. If it goes to $5000 I might sell 2-4 ETH but that's it.