I hope that you're optimistic outlook is correct, and I'm woefully incorrect.
It would make me very happy indeed, to be totally wrong.
...Inspired by your post, matey.
https://blurtlatam.intinte.org/blurtpolitics/@lucylin/where-do-we-go-from-here-a-very-quick-tour
Hope means little, I guess! So realistically, the future will be somewhere between you (-99%) and my (+1000%) numbers. Well then, now that we've nailed that down... LOL
lollolol...yeah, somewhere between there....
As I said - nothing would make me happier than to be very, very wrong...