Maybe it’s time to stop listening good advice and invest in meme coins?

I’ve been balls deep in crypto for 3 years now, I’m thankful because this motivated me to do a coding bootcamp and I have a brand new very useful skill now. It also motivated me to get a second job and use that extra money to buy crypto. I invest 50% BTC and 50% small MC coins. I do my research on these for days before I buy and make sure they have a use case and the founder is not a scammer. Here is the thing though, none of these small MC tokens is going anywhere. Even the projects with the best looking future is designed to make the founder and devs get rich first and people like me who find it first are bag holders for years before we see any returns if ever. Whereas for meme coins, people who are always reading and doing research will make less than the founders and devs but will also get good profits when the general public starts buying and the MC reaches $100mil+ . Knowing that I could have made lots of money on PEPE if I didn’t have this “I’m better than meme coins” attitude doesn’t feel right. What do you think? And before you ask, yes I’m in crypto to make money, if I was here for just the technology I would just buy BTC and ETH.