the best way to do right now is to invest on bitcoin and altcoin. most of the ICO's are unpredictable you dont know if the project will be success. too long to wait for the exchange, while buying bitcoin and altcoin are good invest right now. the price are too low and hold it until the price will increase.
I completely agree with you. It's a waste of money to invest in ICOs is such a difficult situation. Most of ICO are ETH-compliant, and ETH is crashing every day. So they won't have money to give your profit back!