I haven't gotten rich in the past couple of years, but my retirement account is bigger, something most people can't say.
I don't think this bear market is over yet by a long shot. Growth stocks that pay no dividend are still overvalued, and the air will continue to be let out of them.
On the other hand, some specific individual stocks may reach their bottom before the rest of the market does. I have no way of determining what that bottom is, either for the particular stock or the overall market, but at some price, the stocks that pay dividends are returning more on that alone than their cash alternatives.
If you saw a stock that was paying a 7% yield, based on its stock price tomorrow, how could you possibly lose by buying it? Sure, it may drop further, but you're still getting a better yield on it than if you bought a CD. As long as the company itself is not in trouble and can keep paying that dividend indefinitely, you'd be nuts to switch to cash instead.