Staking is not for me, too risky in my opinion with the threat of a third party controlling your coins. My advice is to just buy regularly and have a lot of patience to hold for many years. You will be handsomely rewarded for your patience in the future.
There were less information about stolen funds, hacking the whole DeFi platform, before in the crypto space. Because every transactions were decentralized. Staking program came to expose users funds to many hacks that had occurred many times on decentralized finance platforms. It is risky doing that, afterall, the APR is way too low for tangible profits over a period of 2 year.