If SBF gets off with less than 10 years then you know FTX and the DeFi industry was at least government supported/enabled (if not orchestrated) to suppress price and wreak havoc during this epoch.
The shenanigans bought some time but free markets cannot be dammed up for long.
Hot take:
FTX was government backed and was being set up to eventually be the ETF custodian to further manipulate price. When it went bust, they panicked and tried to stop ETF approval through Gensler. However, it was too late because of futures approval and grayscale won in court and ETFs were reluctantly approved.
This is all pure speculation by me.
