In the near future, I am pretty sure that we will be seeing it go much higher since I am sure that there are more people adopting bitcoin as time goes by.
You've been around for 4 years and you still believe that the number of transactions in a block grows if more people are using it?
Usage has nothing to do with it, we had years of full blocks, the maximum number of tx can be achieved even now or we might never see one as the one ranochigo mentioned ever, as more services are batching transactions to save on fees.
Again, this is incorrect. If you want to determine how filled a block is, you're going to have to look at the block size as miners will always attempt to maximize that. Transaction counts are not relevant in this case. Pretty much every single block has been filled with the maximum size, even if it only contains 800 transactions.
Ps. The transaction volume is actually one of the lowest in recent months.
I don't know where those journalists get their material or their sources.
Besides the stupidity of counting the tx in a block, China hasn't banned BTC, it hasn't even banned mining, that's a regional decision, damn, these days everybody is a journalist, analyst, specialist, and 99% of them don't have a clue what day is today.
Btw, it's not only the lowest in months, with the weekend being again so low inactivity and empty blocks we've managed to see the lowest numbers since 2018..