In the future maybe 2025 the next big thing in crypto won't be what we've make lots of money from like the metaverse, Play2earn NFTS, they will be around but won't be the main focus, it might be web3.0 and other that's not even been acknowledged yet, just saying this because some people are already planning to pack many meme coins and other for the future your expectations might not come true
Web 3 not acknowledge? I think your wrong with that but web 3 is now verry popular and being used the most. its not only metaverse projects and nft's where people can make lots of money but we have the good old cryptocurrencies, they are still the main characters in here.
Metaverse, nft's as well as web 3 are still kinda new and will still be relevant up to that date you mention. In fact right now they are all saying that web 3, nft and metaverse are the future so investing on them can be a good thing. Meme coins on the other hand are different to them so do not classify them as if they are one and the hype of meme coins are already over.
That is the problem, people look at what could be high in the very distant future, and not look at what they could make money from today. It is obvious that you could make a good amount of profit with the current situation, bitcoin, ethereum, ltc, bnb, and few other great coins are still out there and you could make a great return with them.
The main problem is that the big names do not look like they could make 100x profit for you. We all heard about the guy that invested 8 thousand dollars to shiba on early days and became a "billionaire" right? I mean he can't sell them, if he tried then the price would crash quick enough that he wouldn't make that much, but he would still be in big big big profit, at least tens of millions of dollars. People are expecting that kind of return and that is why they are always looking at those type of brand new tech instead of old and reliable ones.