How long will miner capitulation affect price

Since the merge eth has been dumping somewhat,do you expect miner capitulation to end soon(ish)? will eth recover in the short term? is its -7% parity with bitcoin a persuasive reason to buy? (personally ive never had/been much into eth but it might be worth it to start stacking some)

Is it worth it running your own validator or just go with a stakeing service?

Also (maybe a dumb side questions) is there an upper bound on the number of validators the network can have? how good does my conectivity need to be if I want to avoid getting slashed?