The bear market has been going on for quite some time now. To be more precise, since last October, many assets, including ETH, have been doing nothing but falling. The recent market decline only confirms the existence of this trend.
As for the possibility of ETH falling to $1k, I wouldn’t say that would be "something terribly wrong." On the contrary, such a sharp sell-off should be viewed as an opportunity to buy a long-term asset like ETH at an attractive price.
Some people do not even realize that we have been in the bear market since October, and not just this week. It had a big drop this week so they think it started now, but it has been going down since October and this is just continuation of that bear market.
I agree that if you see coins going down, that is not a bad thing, we all know it recovers anyways, and next bull run will be 5k+ without a doubt, so if you buy bitcoin when it goes to 1k, you could make x5 return in 2-3 years, that's not a bad return at all.