The price of the coins depends on the trend in them.
If there is a trend its price is growing.
Now morden trand is differen dogs coins. Their price is growing and people buy dogs coins to have more profit.
But now appear a cats coins like this https://twitter.com/angrykittytoken/status/1479171278171000833
May be the trend of 2022 will be a cats coins
Now cryptocurrency market falls and when market falls it is very difficult to say what cryptocurrency will be profitable.
Usually when market falls all cryptocurrencies falls and people prefer to use stablecoins.
It is really very hard to say what altcoins will be profitable in 2022 if the cryptocurrency market will fall.
But I believe that in 2022 will appear new prospective altcoins and projects that will be really useful for people.