For me, what I am looking forward is the reduction of gas fees under eth network. When are we going to finally see cheaper fees? Because with this bottleneck, many new networks are addressing this long running problem of eth, and they are now doing good in terms of adoption like BSC, SOL or DOT. Though we know ETH dev team is working but it has been so long that we are requesting the reduction of these gas fees. So this 5k is very possible to happen, maybe when eth team decide to finally resolve this gas fee problem.
This can only happen in 2 ways.
One, the network scales, which is slowly happening already, and 2.0 will clear that. That is just all about a waiting game.
Two, the network loses popularity and users,,, which is not happening despite some moving to BSC and others, they never abandon Ethereum as it still has the best projects (NFT or Defi even).
In other words, we have nothing to do but be patient