This is the crux of it... at least a hundred thousand new NFTs are being produced every day. True collectors (not flippers) will be drawn toward the ones made back when it wasn't fashionable to do so.

With CryptoKitties, the problem is there are so damn many of them. It was actually the first NFT I ever bought, in 2018, I wanted to see what the fuss was all about. I recently recovered it -- turns out it had been sitting on their marketplace unsold for about 4 years.    am just keeping it now for sentimental value.