I agree with your suggestion

This is also what im doing now with my old computer....
To join in an earlier phase is the only chance for my poor hardware

When not so many people know about mine crypto and the difficulty is so easy. I remember someone able to mine more than ten thousands of bitcoin just in short time with pentium 3 computer.
But this time our poor hardware will have exploded if we are using it to mine crypto. Lol The fact those people caught the bottom line gets a huge return right now.