I would go for less risk and less profit because I rather have less risk and less profit but consistent, for me that would be stable income and consistency is the key to have a big profit in the long run. Younger people will always put big risk in order to make huge profit but once you will aged you will only settle for less risk but consistent profit and of course it's less stress at all. Investing will not be measure for huge profit but it matters for long term run!
I think what you are saying is absolutely not wrong in terms of risk and taking advantage. Because when someone starts consistently to be able to get profits in the long run even though he collects it little by little every day, of course in the end he will also find a lot of profit because he gets it continuously. But what is still a problem now is that not everyone can benefit continuously even with a very small size and also accompanied by a small risk.
That is, profit in any case is not always related to the size of the risk taken by someone, but it also has something to do with one's level of luck in terms of investment even though it is for the long term. Because the obstacle here is consistency in getting profits every day or every week, unless the market can always increase as he wants.