If you have the money to take the risk then it may work out for you, I'm not the old me who look things the way people do anymore, there is always more that met the eye
Tron value was once 0.001$, no one expect the price to reach 0.016$ today, if you ask me that's a big gain.
In 2017 Komodo coin was 0.002$ and today it's trading for 0.62$, these are big gains that are way superior over anything big coins like Bitcoin can give, the bigger the risk the bigger the profit, that's the motto of altcoins
It seems like you already 've said almost everything OP got to know.
I'd like to add two obvious yet important things - there are no way to tell if a coin/token is going to be valuable overtime
and you have no profit until you hold the coins (I mean hasn't exchanged them)