How many % staked do you think we will level out at?

We just went over 800k validators and increasing steadily. The queue is shrinking since more validators are allowed in and out each epoch (it's a fraction of the current number of active validators) If the trend continues, the queue should be gone in 18 days or so, and then growth could slow down.

I can see the hassle with staking and less liquid assets, for sure. But to me, it's very hard to understand why someone would wanna own ether over at least liquid-staked ether such as Rocket Pool or staking them on an exchange. It's like having two bank accounts and one of them has interests in it, which one would you put your money in? Even if it's a small ROI it's better than no ROI, right?

The only reason to put ether somewhere else is it's bound up in some other scheme.

By this logic, most ether should end up either staked or otherwise unavailable to the markets, will this lack of supply drive price up, since people need ether for transactions? When do you think we reach an equilibrium?