Don't know about you guys but I feel pretty late. 
You are not late till cryptocurrency gets mass adoption. You simply have missed several chances to earn. Your earning process simply will be more complicated than for those guys who had discovered cryptocurrency 5-7 years ago. However, for you everything will be much easier to understand or achieve, as now there are thousands of faqs, tips, guides, strategies, compared to cryptocurrency pioneers, who achieved everything via thousands of tests, issues and underwater stones.
That's the advantage of gaining practical experience that we can teach others what not do. Learning from others' mistakes is a skill that not everyone can achieve.
Although he might feel late but we all are still early in the crypto community than the rest of the non-crypto people.
According to few reports less than 10% of the world population have invested in cryptocurrencies and if that is true then just think how many more earning opportunities are still there waiting for people like us to be grabbed.
So just keep hustling and gaining knowledge because that's what will be the most valuable in future.
So true. Cant disagree with all of what you have written. To bad that IIrik11 post was about being late to buy Bitcoin @ the price of $1k-10k (probably). While most care about money, only few care about technology. Learning is never late. For me, there is so much to discover in cryptocurrency, so much to invent.