I don't think that's a fair assessment. It would be like saying you haven't left your town until you see another one.

And bringing Voyager I to a full stop is currently impossible. It doesn't have the fuel and is traveling at incredible speed. Although, technically the velocity is relative to our own. It very well may BE stopped relative to some other object in space.

If it were pointing at Proxima Centauri, the nearest star system to ours, it would take 75,000 years, give or take, to get there.