Everybody wants to gain profits by investing. That's why they are so anxious in investing in case they lose money. As far as ICO's are concerned most of the ICO's are scam, so why would one invest in these projects.
A very large portion of the ICOs seem to be scammers. I stopped accepting most bounties due to the large number of companies that never go past the presale stage.
That's very thoughtful of you, not to accept to manage their scamming project again. Since the owners of ICO projects want to pose their project as legit, whereby they have a bad intention to deceive crypto investors to, invest with them, just for them to be duped of their hard earned money. That's very heartbreaking to imagine.
That's exactly why I chose to run away from anything concerning altcoins, I really don't care to know just how long they've been in the market, as long as it's not Bitcoin then it's not worth investing in.
If ever at any point in time I feel like diversifying my investment, I might consider diversifying to stock or even gold, rather than filling my bags with all kinds of altcoins, because to me those altcoins are mostly scams, both ood and new coins and not worth investing in.
Of course, your principles must be appreciated because everything is of your own volition, and you see the situation you have experienced, so you decide not to accept any altcoin as an investment and only Bitcoin, Because everyone also knows that bitcoin is very trustworthy compared to altcoins, although not all altcoins are bad, there are some that can be used as interesting investments in my opinion.
But I agree more with gold because its value rarely goes down compared to shares, there could be manipulation.
But all choices are left to the individual and no one can intervene.