Anyone who ever got rich in crypto bought cheap projects early before they were multiple billions worth.
Next project to kill Chainlink and IC for ecample is ModeFi. And you can make x1000.
Well so in the end your thread title is just a bait to make people look into your ModeFi shilling thread. I don't have a problem with that because the crypto space has always been the wild west in regards of scamming, shilling and so on but i doubt that such threads will convince any reader to invest into that project. I don't know about ModeFi so maybe it even is a great Project, but there are so many new crypto projects out there, it is almost impossible to keep track of them all.
Also i disagree with your statement that you will stay poor if you invest into top 50 coins. I even think that a bear market like now is a good chance to get some of those big coins and when we are back in a bull market even those big projects could do another x10 from here on.
Of course there probably won't be a x100 or even a x1000 anymore but at least the risk is relatively low in comparison to an investment in new projects.