There is always going to be something @Thomas O'Donnell, some fear of now vs later because for every player out on the field making the actions to score the TD's, there is 10,000 sitting in the stands watching yelling out what those players "should" be doing, and guess how many points they score from those seats....
Everything in REI boiled down to the simplest possible explanation is *"Don't try to put square pegs in round holes". A deal is a deal, you'll know it when you see it. Ignore the market, ignore the times, tune it all out, turn it all off, and just simply do the analysis of that deal and answer the question, is it or isn't it a deal.
When it comes to timing the market, have you ever heard the sorties of all the people who jumped in buying properties in '09', because they had been waiting knowing the price drop was coming? No, because there isn't any. Or how about all the people who went hog-wild buying everything in '12-18' because they "knew" values were going to take massive jumps up????? No, again. If you can time the market for these kinds of moves, it's a league of you and you alone, think about that, are you better then literally every human alive to peg such a thing? So right there we know "timing the market" is a complete mirage, it does not exist, it's what people riding the bench say to make an excuse for why they are not doing anything vs the truth of admitting they don't know what to do, or are letting fear win over work.
Don't force it, run the numbers, act like an investor and not a gambler.