If you don't get in at the very bottom you set yourself up. If there is a premine and no trusted parties you can get rugged at the bottom. You see it's all a game. Then you have outside investors who can buy up and pump and wreck the project. It's like a double edged sword in the altcoin game. At this point if nothing is pushing Bitcoin it's likely a scam. How the hell is any of these altcoins worth a dollar? Don't care if it has a whitepaper or green paper how is it worth a penny? It's a risky game I'm telling you. Most of these altcoins should be worth nothing untill a community shows up or it hits the streets. Where's the product?
Even if there are trusted parties involved you can get rugged hard. Don't fall for those easy tricks of legitimizing bad actors. Look what happened with FTX and it was endorsed by many major names even if its founders had no clues what they were doing. Vouches and trusted parties are also very often a red flag.
You can't trust no one but there has to be some kind of trustworthy characters. Bitcoin would not have made it if the creator did not trust anybody. He had to trust Gavin and Hal look at the history of them the character. Projects aren't going to make it especially now of days without a super strong commitment. Satoshi was thinking a century away to 2140. What are most projects thinking right NOW!!! Money money money.
The irony of your post. Satoshi trusted them and both of them turned out to be frauds that betrayed his vision and ideals later. You just proved my point thinking that you disproved it.
Satoshi used some real people you could see on his project that would be great. Having real life people everybody can track and watch.
99% of projects with a public teams are scams. What does that tell you?