Indeed, after you do your research and you are convinced that the project will bring profit it's you who will decide for your investment, your comparison is valid and whether the investor is leaning with staking rewards or he's just waiting for the value to increase the sure thing is as long as he's doing his investment to earn profits that's good, otherwise, if he invest just because someone tells him that he should invest and the project got a good potential then the chance of losing is possible.
In doing research we must look at the subjects' fundamentals and should observe the market longer. Because sometimes an error in research may happen if we do the market research during the pump or hype. Continuous observation or longer observation is needed to be able to identify the actual market of the subject.
But sometimes, people can get so bored with doing market research that, in the end, they decide just to follow other people's advice. This can harm them in making decisions because this is not based on in-depth research but only on momentary decisions.
I believe no one gets bored when it involves money. No matter how hard is the process, if we talk about money gain people will have patience about it unless that person doesn't need profit from his investments. Those who doesn't do their research and is driven by other peoples suggestion are just newbies in the industry. I agree that there is high possibility that listening to other hype without doing any research can harm our funds.
But if we can do some research before deciding, it will be useful because we will know which tokens have a chance to make it big in the future. But be careful in your decision because there is still no guarantee that the token's price will increase in the future. And only use the money you can afford to invest so that the loss will not be too big.
It should be an SOP. Researching and verifying everything before diving into an ivestment.