When the most fundamental organisms in the ecosystem perish, the entire ecosystem will collapse accordingly.

The current problem in the crypto world is not that the whales are too ruthless, but that there are fewer and fewer retail investors at the bottom.
Without new grass, small fish will starve to death;
Once the small fish die of hunger, the big fish can't survive either.
In the end, only a table of old chives remains, harvesting each other.