I’ve been wondering about the exact same question earlier today.
I concluded that time will tell.
Meanwhile, it has been a very good promotion for Bitcoin. People are holding, and even buying Bitcoin, hoping to get another coin at a 1:1 ratio, like they did with Bitcoin Gold and Bitcoin Cash.

I must admit Ive been thinking about selling my Bitcoin after it hit $19000 and was going down again. But I didn’t. I simply didn’t sell because of all the upcoming hard forks/splits. Don’t take me wrong, I’m totally against forks - it undermines the reputation, value and credibility of a coin. But I would be lying if I said I didn’t like to get free money.

So maybe the entire Segwit2X hype was a good stunt to prevent people selling their BTC. Maybe it was not. We’ll just have to wait and see