I actually agree with you. I am also done trying to find that 100x on my own as I think it is nearly impossible. I am just going to follow smart people and follow coins on good exchanges like Binance and hope for the best.
100x seems a lot but this was actually very possible as long as the market returns to normal. You only follow smart people but you must still be picky because many smart people like elon and warren (only to name a few) that hates bitcoin but these people can shill a crap crypto. Don't dare following their advises because you will surely regret in the long run.
Also top exchanges like binance are allowing coins even if its risky because they only care of the money or the listing fee that they will be getting so you still must do your own research and don't just randomly pick coins there. Be like op. Don't support trash coins but go on for something that is promising e.g bitcoin, eth, xrp, and the list goes on.