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/1479171278171000833May be the trend of 2022 will be a cats coins

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.
Cryptocurrency industry is actively developing and a lot of new and prospective altcoins appear making the technology better and offering people new opportunities.
But during the fall of the market only the best projects will survive.