Yep. We can spend time providing information to newbies, yet we can ONLY do so much in order to motivate them to do their own research and their own due diligence and for them to act in terms of figuring out how to buy some bitcoin and to start to buy it.
Sure, if someone is curious and they are asking a lot of questions, then maybe we might not mind helping them out more, yet there is also ONLY so much that we are going to be able to do, since they are also going to need to take proactive actions themselves, too... There are ONLY so many hours in the day that we are going to be able to help people, unless maybe we turn that into one of the activities that we are willing to do... yet even if we do a lot of hand-holding, there still are going to be action requirements from any one we are trying to teach and/or help.
You made good points but I still believe that serious intending or newbies will not be needing much from investors that are already in the system although it all depends on what they want, an investor that has made up his or her mind to invest in Bitcoin will not be needing much from existing investor since what he needs to start first is the basic knowledge which is still very much easy for him, what matters in all of this, is how ready an investor is to start doing the needful, as a meter of fact, there are people you may regret even teaching or enlightening them about this investment, not because they don't have all it takes to invest but because they aren't ready to invest reason being there skeptical mindset towards Bitcoin investment, though we won't stop preaching Bitcoin but in all, it will depend on the individual we are preaching for and his or her zeal to practicalize the stuff that has been preached,
I have come to understand that no matter what we say, individual decisions surpass everything but what can we do, we keep doing what we know how to do best, in conclusion, the action of someone you're putting through in the said investment comes in when you're done, which is putting the whole process into practice and personally learning the remaining things when fuilly in the system.