Experiences from OP, and your experiences that I also felt. When I first started playing slots, in the first 2 months, I found it easy to win with several maxwin i get. However, after that, I feel it more difficult. I even started thinking the system was unfair.
But, back to the fact that slot systems rely on luck, and most people giving suggestion to trying to know the live RTP time, because they said the results might not be so bad during live RTP. Well i never doing this, because at the place where I usually playing slots, they don't seem to provide that information till now.
We win in the initial days! Later we star losing and that streak continues till we again hit a jackpot. This is how gambling works and will remain the same way in the coming years. What I felt while doing sports betting is that luck games are more easy and causes more loss. Whereas sporst betting is a tedious job and still it doesn't guarantee you would win. When both games have somewhat similar outcome why not gamble with a risk. I won't recommend anyone to jump into luck gambling although the poositive outcome are far less than betting, there is still a probability that it would be more profitable than other forms of gambling.