Don't bother talking about a lot of long-winded things, let's go, the journey is still good, there's nothing wrong with investing in it, except for those who are pessimistic and full of doubt.
This question is common in this space , if it's too late to invest in bitcoin, I won't blame anyone though most people don't know about the potential in Bitcoin, Bitcoin is not just an asset is an asset that's tends to keep increasing in value, now Bitcoin haven't gotten close to its peak at all is still got alot of rooms for growth it may only takes time ( nothing good comes that easy ) , so the best thing to do is to position yourself by accumulating and holding bitcoin , you can even start with DCAing if you are scared of buying at the top with lump-sum, you spread your pitching using DCAing.
Part of the reason that the question continued to come up is that bitcoin continues to go up and reach all time high after all time high, so no one wants to buy at the top, and so they are thinking that bitcoin has to be like a normal asset that goes up and then comes back down, so their ideas of bubble does not work, and after seeing bubble after bubble after bubble, perhaps sooner or later normies should catch on that they need to get in rather than waiting around.. but they don't get in and they keep witnessing the same thing over and over and over, and everyone believes they are too late at the time that they get in.. until they study the space for a while and then end up coming to the conclusion that we are not too late... we are still early.
Anyhow, you are correct I_Anime.. too late is a repeated and continuing to repeat theme and it will continue to repeat in the future, and perhaps 10 years from now, several of us will be continuing to say that it is not too late. and maybe in 10 years we might have more adoption.. perhaps 10% to 20% adoption? Perhaps higher? but still, an overwhelming majority of newbies are still likely going to continue to conclude that they are too late.