it's true I think crypto is not as easy as you imagine, getting money here needs expertise to understand analysis and this fundamentals are not investments that can make a lot of money if you gambling
I guess its no easy money here. Those mindset are very wrong in the beginning, specially in 2017 when there's a lot of irrational buyers, even getting bitcoin at its peak price in December. Maybe someone whisper to team that this market is a get rich scheme, but it's not and it's a hard lesson for them. I'm sure they got burned early and never come back. But at least they learn something and will be very careful again and not repeat the same mistakes again.
Surely they learn something because 2018 brings massive destruction to the market, imagine being down by over half of your investment, I'm pretty sure a lot had already panic selling. Now that we are in a new year, I'm expecting that most investors left are those with strong hands.
People heard and people saw how crypto is making new millionaires and they wanted to try the same thing. It's not easy to make money in any way, for some people maybe that can look like that, but it's only what comes after very hard work and lots of knowledge. Luck also can make millionaires, what can be hard in choosing some random alt and investing couple hundreds in it, who choose good will become millionaire one day.
Crypto is so big that anyone can do multiple things, you can hold some amin coins or to try with alts, you can trade or gamble, you can invest just time and claim faucets, every beginning is hard, to learn basics everyone needs some time, but the main thing is that everything is possible with crypto.