To be honest, it is absolutely risky and nowadays investing in altcoins is certainty unpreferable especially the new ones due to a lot factors like the volatility of the market , regrettably the current situation is unstable. We have not seen any progress for a long time. For example Bitcoin , it is been months and still stuck between $23k-28k and same goes to ETH l and due to the whole market is following them, so there is a high risk to invest in short term.
Moreover, 90% of new altcoins/tokens are scams. They always come into the crypto market with high values , then suddenly dip to the bottom. Furthermore, They always build attention to attract greedy victims. So you have to be careful in picking new altcoins, if you don’t know project pretty well, then don’t take the risk and waste your money on it.
I would guess that there has been so many tokens that failed and crashed in the past 2 years that people are not entirely sure what to invest anymore. Even the top 20 ones do not look like they have any type of trust in them, people invest to them somewhat but they are still not entirely sure about it.
Let's be honest and realize that bitcoin is trusted like no other coin ever be and that's the difference. This is why I believe that we should be looking at this differently and that's an important part of it. I believe that we should be considering this as a big deal that is profitable for everyone, just buy and hold bitcoin, that's good enough for everyone.