Yeah, the STEEM price is what decides if we complete this project, and little else. Even 500 STEEM donations don't move the progress bar the same way a crypto price move does. We can be 85% one week, and 45% the next.
You're right that prices will at some point recover. Will they recover enough to complete the project, though, that's the question. It has been 3 straight years of nonstop losses, month after month after month. It's hard to be sure we're at the bottom.