Honestly it depends on how much you would be willing to risk.
Always choose the type of investment that would schedule well around your life.
What is your risk tolerance? How busy are you? How much time do you have to invest into trading? These are the types of questions you must ask yourself when you are deciding to trade between stocks and crypto. Crypto is definetely a faster moving and riskier investment which requires more energy and commitment while stocks are the opposite.
Stocks to me is just risky as well. You can either make a lot of money or lose a lot of money. So if considering the two options, I will rather go for something that will make me a lot of money considering they have about the same level of risk, if not the same, but at least close.
When it comes to risk and possible profits on a particular time frame then they do really differ on stock and cryptocurrency trading as you said we can really make less profits on stocks but yet losing money would really be less too seeing on the price volatility it doesnt really move too much compared on cryptos which do move on high ranges which we can able to make money if we can able to ride the waves but yet at the same time we can lose money too on huge amounts.They do really have the level of risk on each trading field they have their own level.