It doesn't matter if we are early or not. What matter is quality of your investments. You can have bigger profits than people that were years earlier than you and some people that will be later will be more successful in crypto than you are.

One of things that I dislike a lot is discussion if we are early or not. It is simply waste of time and doesn't matter at all. Some words won't make us less or more money. Correct question should be: " Are you early in coins that you hold?" That is what metter.

Some people started their crypto journey in 2012, 2015 or 2017. Does it mean they were earlier than you? Maybe. Some of them drive lambos and spend time on tropical beaches. Others are still poor. Not every coin that existed back then survived, there were scams, rugpulls, majority of top 100 coins in 2017 are not in top100 anymore. Being earlier doesn't help much if you are terrible investor. Being earlier mean just that you had different opportunities.

People that will buy later than us NGMI, right? Not always. Average person that will buy crypto in 5 or 10 years probably not. But most of them they won't be even crypto investors. They will be people that will invest 5% of their money in crypto and check their portfolio once in few weeks. The same like majority of people that invest in stocks do now. But mass adoption won't mean not being early anymore. Even in stocks, established business that exist for centuries you can become filthy rich. New companies and ideas are created everyday. Mass adoption of crypto won't mean that no big profits will be possible anymore. New crypto will be still created everyday. Probably even more than now. Most of them will fall, but some smart people will make buge profits on finding real gems.

Time you spend in crypto or when you started doesn't matter as much as quality of your investments. Stop asking if you are in crypto early or not. Ask yourself if you are early in best projects at the moment.