That's the thing in that you don't know. For all I know Splinterlands will never recover and die a slow death which certainly isn't unthinkable. That's usually how it goes, once prices pumped all the new guys look back at the old ones who managed to buy at cheap prices but at that time the uncertainty was just massive.
One thing is sure, the potential for Splinterlands really is there but the devs just need to change their way of going about things which doesn't really look like it. I see all of it now more as an expense instead of an investment.