Why is it like this now, I believe many will ask How did we get here? Honestly Bitcoin was meant to be an entity of its own, the financial freedom away from the traditional financial system which can't beat the allegations of manipulation, Godfatherism and a political tool.
Gradually we have started to normalize Bitcoin as some asset under the United States of America control, I don't care if you are right or not but we are going down a path that will end up at Bitcoin losing its independence on government or worse it's decentralized nature threatened.
As much as this was unavoidable, this is not what the OP was talking about. The OP was only trying to imply that these economic or financial activities do not always correlate with Bitcoin's price, and I agree with him.
People try to find a correlation with everything and Bitcoin. It has been different things in the past. Things like the US debt, wars and many more. Bitcoin is a financial asset, and of course, economic and financial events, and even geopolitical events affect Bitcoin, but they should stop looking for a correlation in everything.
There is no way Bitcoin will not be interlinked with the financial system. The people who use it are people who are in the real world, so what affects them and the decisions they make affects Bitcoin. SO I don't see anything wrong with Bitcoin being affected by economic activities.