I think you are right. There will probably be times when staying at home is the wiser course of action, and times when it will be deemed acceptable to go out and eat in restaurants, go shopping, etc.
I haven't seen a movie in a theater for over 2 years, and I have no plans to go to one. I haven't been to a concert, or indoor sporting event, or church, or a casino or a conference, as well. I'm sure at some point I will start attending these activities again. Just not for the near future.
What bothers me is that I've been wrong with my internal predictions on when this was going to end. I figured in June of this year that we were pretty much at the end of this thing, with vaccines becoming easily accessible. Then Delta hit in the late summer. Then I figured that with Delta pretty much taking out the non-vaccinated, we'd be at the end of this thing by November/December, and up pops Omicron.
I keep wanting to think we are at the end of the tunnel, and instead I realize it is just a light on the ceiling and there's another mile or so of tunnel to go!