I think the investment narrative these days changed drastically as we expected. Investors no longer look for projects with good utility value but also projects with large community followership because that gives them the believe that such project would garner much attention of big exchanges and other players on the industry.
Changed? Not at all! Every single wave was based not on utility but on the hype, Defi, Meta, AI, remember how they came and flooded the ecosystem with coins that had, what utility? Not even their own developers could explain what those metaverse coins would be and how and what would they be used for but there were thousands buying them.
Actual utility in those coins?
We had utility coins for everything at one point, real estate, transport, travel, medicine, insurance, they were the some, hype not utility.
They do not care about the project but as long as that project would fetch them reasonable amount of money as profit, they would go for it.
And you can't blame them because they know from experience, that unless you get a 1/1000 lucky bet and you put your money in real good coins that actually work your best way to make a profit is to get early in and dump it at a profit as fast as you can cause there won't be a second chance.
There are hundreds of so-called "good" coins that never managed to get even close to their ATH even now, AAVE $600 ATH /$100 now, ALGO 2$/18 cents, Polygon, 2.98/0.73 and you can go with those for pages. Dumping everything at the first pump is the winning strategy for most coins.