Yes, that's very right, Investing in bitcoin without in-depth knowledge will not be a big problem because every new investor must know bitcoin from their friends or from social media, when the first purchase is made that is the initial stage for them to approach bitcoin. As you said, early investors do not understand bitcoin, but they buy and hold and their knowledge will increase throughout the journey day by day.
That also applies to new investors, they want to invest in bitcoin, even though they do not understand much about bitcoin but they have a lot of time to learn about bitcoin.
The investor's journey in investing in bitcoin only needs to know about the initial steps, namely buying on a trusted exchange and withdrawing it to a personal wallet, that's enough for the initial stage before they learn along with the accumulation they do.
Even if they don't know these initial steps or can't do the initial steps themselves, they can enter the investment through a trusted friend/reliable person. Basically when you plan or decide to invest you should not delay at all. But you must be an expert and learn the basics very soon. Because you should not depend on others for a long time.
Later when you are able to acquire basic knowledge and can make your own purchases then you should continue to try to gain knowledge about Bitcoin, because in order to manage investment you need to know what Bitcoin is and how to invest in Bitcoin and when to take action. I consider it essential to gain knowledge on the subject.
I disagree with you that a brand new investor that want to start his bitcoin investment shouldn't have the basic knowledge of bitcoin before investing. This is strange because how will you invest on something that you have zero knowledge on. To have the basic knowledge of bitcoin i very important for anyone that wants to start his bitcoin investment because it is simple, and this is why it is encouraged that you need the basic knowledge for you to invest, because you can learn as you are investing since it is a long term investment, rather than waiting to have the concrete knowledge before investing.
Bitcoin investment is not like a traditional investment that takes time before you can understand the business before setting it up. Bitcoin investment is learn as you buy, and keeping on learning and buying. Whoever does not learn the basic of bitcoin before investing is not serious and dumb because you can learn the basics on the internet.
Learning the basic doesn't take you much as a Bitcoin enthusiast, I mean you ought to have heard something sometimes that caught your interest before starting up one day that you would invest in Bitcoin and that feeling alone is the stepping stone. The basic about Bitcoin isn't hard to get access to that's if you have the internet ofcourse, I mean it doesn't take much to understand the general principle of investment which is saving money long term for profit which is same with Bitcoin.
There are some key principle and knowledge you get to know along the way in your Bitcoin investment journey which is important so you don't fuck everything up but the major step firstly to take is actually getting to start up the investment because I feel waiting to gather all vital knowledge before investment is somehow like procrastinating cause fear of doing the wrong thing will just keep you away from buying and the longer you wait to be perfect the more opportunities you get to miss out.