When I first entered into the crypto space, I used to look down on myself, I mean anytime I look at most of my friends and agemate already making it in the space and doing well for themselves.
But over time I realized something very important which is Being early doesn't matter if you are not ready.
Being early on its own is entirely without usefulness. Many people saw Bitcoin early, but dismissed it because they were not ready. Plenty of those people still post bad things about Bitcoin because they refuse to admit just how badly wrong they have been. Further as we are seeing now with altcoins, plenty of people are going to get a hard lesson of being early in a shitcoin does not make you a winner. They were not ready for Bitcoin, so they went the shitcoin route instead.
In the web3 world being early means a lot either you are not ready for the info or what. So theres some things being early will always be advantage at some point.
Most of web3 is complete marketing garbage though. It brings very little real benefits.