People are so dumb, because we all wish to become rich fast and easy. Bitcoin is a promoter of such ideology, how many stories we heard about some boy who bought bitcoin five years ago and holded and now he is rich. All this shitcoins and ICOs are porazitating on such stories and peoples' wishes. I think tihs is jist going to be continued tihs way, because of there is no any seriouse control and punishment in this area.
As a newbie myself, I understand what you mean.
But I can't agree with the last part of your analysis concerning control and punishment.
I think we should sometimes remember why we are here, newcomers or not : there's also an ethical question behind all this, that can not be ignored.
It's certain that joining the crypto-currency world in 2017 with the idea of becoming rich may be a mistake. I have no moral grief against it, maybe it could work, but maybe it is also a bad calculation. Study hard and have a good degree of medicine, science, language, economics or whatever immediately useful in the real world would be a 1000 better investment, in time and/or money.
But I don't think "Bitcoin is a promoter of such ideology". Bitcoin is from the origin, at least as I understand it, an alternative solution to the centralization of the control of the money in the opaque hands of a few banks, institutions and states. It's a real non-violent revolution, and as the mother of all crypto currencies, it's the key that permitted to enter a new world and gave hopes and perspectives to millions (...well maybe thousands, or hundred of thousands) of people to invent a new way of distributing wealthiness more equitably. Bitcoin had and has some disadvantages : main one is that it's now technically unreachable for common people. But it was not conceived this way at the beginning, it's only its "natural" evolution that lead to that situation.
That's why altcoins are useful, and can induce a more egalitarian and more democratic access to the money, by going on evolving : if I can't mine bitcoin, I'll try something else more accessible. For that, I have to rollup my sleeves to understand how it works, improve my perception and understanding, but it's not unreachable, and if you try to learn how it works, how the general ecosystem works you can try to find a place in it.
After that, maybe I can bet on which will be the useful features in the future, and make good investments, and be lucky. Or not.
But whatever, I think there should be always new altcoins, again and again, until it's easy even for my grandma to produce money from nothing and let her use it without the banks and government trying to control her little widow allowance instead of behaving ethically with their own investments.
So "control and punishment"... made by who? who will decide and control? This is the fundamental point.
Just a bit of education and common sense would be better : make easy and abundant profit without work, knowledge or risk... It's only in fairy tales...