Knowing this reality that Bitcoin on its own can not easily slide into such a bear market, and all the Bitcoin bear markets have been influenced by the activities of those centralized exchanges and their shortcomings, their inability has been the cause of all the crisis rocking Bitcoin and the general cryptocurrency market stabilities.
Bitcoin on its own can't slide in a bear market because Bitcoin is a bunch of code!
It's the people trading it who decide if it's going to be stable, in a bear or a bull market, and if people decide so it will make like zero difference if the funds are on a Cex or in cold wallets.
Now, the painfully to admit part is that having fewer coins on cex will also trigger more volatility and more pump and dump manipulations which will harm way more the price than what a cex collpase would ever be able to do. If you end up with 10 000 coins on all exchanges it will turn out worse than some $1k marketcap shitcoin manipulation scheme.
Lol. I'm a lot more skeptical than you are about this. No matter how many scandals like FTX happen, most retail buyers of Bitcoin will continue to do it in centralized entities and many of them leaving them there, as they leave deposits in their bank.
Me too, I blame this so-called trend of moving coins out of exchange on the inability of those chain analysis companies to track the movement of coins and their cold wallets, we know from fillings for over five years that Coinbase holds some 1 million coins for its custodial service but I have not seen one of those companies pointing out the addresses where those funds are stored.
Thinking of this, nobody knows where Salvador coins are held either despite the whole world talking about it.