I don't like altcoins that are based on trends and hypes either, I prefer to minimize my risk and go with long term projects that have proven their reputations in the crypto market, I've always seen new projects as gamble because they might be profitable or they can diminish your investment capital, there's no guarantee on their outcome. But for investors that can withstand the risks of new projects, there's nothing stopping them from marging the two, they can take the risk and invest in trending projects and hopefully when they make profits on the short term, then they'll reinvest it in a long term top projects. Although Bitcoin and Ethereum, remains the two classics of cryptocurrency investments, in them you don't need to worry whether you're buying shitcoins.