I would be foolish to think you just pick Altcoins at random and invest into them, if you looked at the previous bull run, the 2017/2018 and the 2021/2022, it is the new set of Altcoins that do pumped. I don't expect the likes of Ethereum, XRP, Solano, Cardano, Tron etc to give the kind of returns that ARB, OP, SUI, Aptos etc the new tokens coming during this bear market. There are a lot of bag holders holding the old coins and they are waiting to break even and will continue to dump the tokens ones the tokens pumps, but these new Altcoins do not have bad holders and people have faith in it that it is the next Ethereum killer.
This is a dynamic that is often neglected by those bagholders, they all want to breakeven after the shitcoin in which they invested crashed and they were unable to get out in time.
But even if the developers behind the coin were honest about their intentions to bring the project back at its former glory, the truth is that as soon as the coin presented some positive movement then a bunch of bagholders desperate to recover some of their money back will sell their coins, making a full recovery an impossible task.