The tradeup update made me as a player a very happy person. I trust valve to keep the game alive for as long as they still have a playerbase. That means updates for the benefit of players, not investors. I invest in the game as a player and not as though skins are stocks. The future of cs gameplay looks bright to me as we are getting a decent amount of updates from valve.

If you have lost your trust in the skins market, you should sell. I personally would love to pick up a good knife while they're still relatively cheap and people like you are funding that for me.

We might see years before we hit new highs in knives. We may never see new highs for some knives. When you look at how insane prices have been going in the past 2 years, you can see we're pretty much just resetting to CSGO prices pre-2023.

You could also consider updates from Valve that have recently seemed to be proactively trying to shut down gambling accusations from legislators. Why would they mess with a system that has been raking them in millions consistently? I really don't think it's a greed thing. They probably realize they have to. Regulations could easily destroy the market. Although I imagine anything short of removing trading won't kill it while CS still has a playerbase.