The fact that the above still remains true 3 years later is pretty damning.

It also suggests things will go on and we'll be in much the same situation in years going forward.

No it does not - that's an invalid inductive conclusion.

There are clear deadlines that may change everything (apparently Jan 15th might be one of them, from the twitter thread). Justice takes time, but trials do eventually come to a conclusion. If that conclusion is to kill the mechanism that pumps BTC, then all bets are off.

As Keynes famously said, "Past performance is a guarantee of future results"