My idea is if we hold some coins it should be linked with a good project. Unless it will be useless keep holding for 5 years. If you have no time to analyze what are the good projects just try to keep holding around first 10 coins on the coinmarketcap. As example if someone hold 1 Eth since 2018 to 2021 it can be got more than 3000$. So the conclusion is you need to invest in a good coin.
Unfortunately if people are waiting for profits then it is market price of the token that they care about,,, and we all know in crypto good projects hardly and rarely translate into token price. At least,,, not for the few years when starting out (look at BNB).
And worse, many good projects end up just ignoring the token eventually. Great products but no adoption:)