In the eyes of IMF, they’re not actually saying that Bitcoin has already matured, but rather “about to mature”.

In my opinion, as more insitutions and government are positive, embracing and adopting Bitcoin, of course I consider it as “early stages towards maturity”. It’s a good thing that you are confident that BTC will not experience another bloodbath like what we have experience last 2018 because of too much negative news, etc.

But yet again, we don’t know what will BTC be tomorrow, a week later, month, year, etc., because it’s unpredictable and subject to market volatility without warning.

Bitcoin's decline this year cannot be a bloody growth, because this decline is only influenced by external factors and is not too extreme. maybe the first Q1 of this year the bear market is coming to an end,, need to wait for time a big pump will happen soon.

well, that really sounds good but to say there is no bloodbath happening this year, I guess you will still prepare for it. We can't assure everything that went so smoothly. Remember that the market is volatile, price fluctuations arise quite often, and that for sure blood bath is still possible to strike any time. That is why we were not confident of what see now, it can be just a trick and might be the reason for our losses. It is much better to be aware of the situation and leaves no confidence than rather be prepared.

Although Bitcoin has not been able to rise above the $50k price and is still stuck below the $45k price. But we must be grateful that the price of
Bitcoin is high when compared to the beginning of 2021. Even the previous year Bitcoin price dropped even lower, so don't worry for now Bitcoin
probably won't experience a bloodbath. Moreover, with many institutions starting to invest in Bitcoin since 2021, I believe Bitcoin will not experience
a bloodbath. But still like you said we have to prepare for the worst case scenario, because the price of Bitcoin is very volatile, so there is
no 100% guarantee that Bitcoin will not experience a bloodbath. Indeed, we must be careful when deciding to invest in Bitcoin, as many people
have said, investing in Bitcoin has a very high risk.

That is why we must prepare in any situation and condition to be ready for anything that can happen. That is the only way we can do it if we want to use the market for our benefit. Even if that is just a trick, with our preparations, we can see the benefits that we can use so that it will not impact too big on us. The market will tempt us to follow the trend but without we ready with what we have, that will be a time for us to lose. Whether we like it or not, the price will fluctuate, but as long as we can adapt to the current situations, nothing to worry about.

They're just humans and they base their analysis on how the present market is similar to past market so they ultimately fail and may sometimes hit something right. That's nothing special though, pretty sure that a lot of smart investors don't do this kind of thing. I wouldn't worry of a bloodbath though, it's not like 2017 is going to happen again.

correction in the price always happened, so this situation isn't surprising and i do believe that history will not repeat itself since bitcoin always getting matured because of adoption every year and achievements despite of some factors that can bring the price down, it always a normal situation just don't overthink when bearish occur in the market..

1. Anything can happen, maybe they will start to realize the Bitcoin community is very strong. Trying to shut down Bitcoin is certainly very difficult, maybe by calculating all will be more profitable for the IMF.
2. I'm confused, how's their benchmark base? If you look at the age, they may still be children.  But if it matures because developers they always develop it, so they will get better in any way. If you look at the development, it may be precisely growing rapidly and profitably. I don't know, but since I got to know Bitcoin they have grown into a huge industry. They give an advantage, even if there is a small loss. 
3. My expectations are not, but it's not analysis. If I look at some strong points of support and experience in 2017 and that cycle will stretch then I think there will be a decline of over 70%. If I count from ATH then it's around the price of -+ $15K. It's just reading from the routines that have happened, hopefully those routines are different for the year. IMO

Like most of the time it is important to maintain our feet on the ground and be realistic about what we can achieve with our investments, if this is not the case then the most likely scenario is that our predictions will not match the reality and then we will take mistaken decisions because of it, however people do not really understand this and by the time they realize their mistake it is too late to do anything about it, and what is worse is that by the time they accumulate even more money to invest again in the market they have forgotten the lessons they learned.