Being early doesn't matter if you are not ready.
I don't know if you are referring to early investment in altcoins or in Bitcoin. Early investment in Bitcoin yield better profits than investing today, we all wish we had the opportunity of buying Bitcoin when it was very low as of worth in cents instead of today when the price is worth $100K, being early comes in two ways: for altcoins investment nobody knows the worth until the market pumps while Bitcoin investment is something we know to do better in each interval of four years. Buying Bitcoin today is far better than buying with the same amount in the next four years.
You didn't understand the topic. Plenty of people saw Bitcoin when it was very cheap, and they dismissed it because they were not ready. Now others are also wasting time in shitcoins because they are still not ready for Bitcoin.