If a few individuals stop f**king around and reach a consensus about some serious changes in the code, because of a recent jump in hash rate and the never ending competition of miners, soon price will go over $1k.
it is not "a few" individuals! have you seen how hash rate is distributed lately? check it out there are lots of pools, farms and individuals involved who are mining and need to come to a consensus!
and since you are talking about chance in the code i am assuming you are talking about the block size debate, and even if consensus is reached price will rise, sure. but that is not adoption so don't expect much rise and don't expect it to last.
only real adoption, and new investors, new buyers, new services and merchants,... these things will raise the price and it is happening slowly as we can see these days.