The OP said that it might be easier to make 10x shorting. well, I think he really hasn't gotten into trading yet. Even when we get 2x profits when short, it is a very good thing. it's not as easy as the OP said. in fact, it takes persistence for it, it's not even easy to get 2x when going short. In addition, many people who target short, get stuck and end up holding on long term because the price of the coin they are buying has dropped drastically. Imagine making $10k, with $1k in a short amount of time. well, I think if it was that easy, nowadays people tend to prefer trading over investing.
That's true, nobody that knows crypto would think that it's simple, it's one of the hardest things ever and only a fool would think that it would make sense. I believe that it's not going to be easy at all and we shouldn't really be worried about it neither. Life is not that simple and it's going to cause a lot of people to make mistakes because of it.
People may not believe the same things you believe in, but that doesn't mean that we should respect every single opinion, like this one that doesn't make sense. Shorting is very hard and if you do a x10 shorting that means you can't be wrong too much, if it goes even just a bit higher, then you are going to lose all your money. I hope that it gets easier but shorting will never be easy.
I agree, it is not going to be simple and nothing is that simple at all. Having a 10x short or even 100x which is already beyond logical, is just a fools move if you are not an expert trader. Some people, very rarely, could do it and make money because they are experts at what they do, but they are experts so that makes sense, they spent decades on trading platforms and they have studied it and have advanced level of math.
This means that if you are not going to end up with a trouble, then you are going to end up with no profit as well. If you are careful and if you are timid that's not going to work but that doesn't mean you should be making wrong moves neither, just be careful and you should be making a bigger profit.