Why do you think people are waiting for Ethereum 2.0 for months? is not it just a transition from PoW to PoS? nothing more than that right?
and if we are looking at our PoS based coin history, almost all of them were not doing well. I assume ETH will perform the same as any PoS coin.
Waiting for what? People used Ethereum for ICOs and for create tokens on it. But nowdays its not popular. They must find another good liquidity for Ethereum coins. This is most important at this moment.
If people don't wait for something, they don't visit the thread day by day. If they want to find something relates to Ethereum project, that is obviously when next upgrade will be done. Not all altcoins are good ones, not all masternode stakeable coins are good ones. There are selective process in crypto market. That is why we have Ethereum now, at the second rank on Coinmarketcap.com. Price, it can be pumped or dumped, can stay highs or lows. Who knows? Importantly, there is no one can dump the rank of Ethereum to the hell. It has been ranked on the second position on coinmarketcap, for too long.