I feel like it will be stagnant like this year since halving won't happen for another year.
You are probably looking base on just hodling for profit. This will be truth if halving does not come like we have experienced for hodlers that the time for profit is such time when there is volatility after halving but besides hodling the trading aspect of bitcoin is what those speaking of profit are doing, they are trading and not just hodling because that takes time like 4 years at every circle for another ATH to be reached. Learning to trade is profitable than to hodl.