Why focus your investments to NFT at this point? I mean it is not an investment to focus making money on. If you really want to, if your entire focus is on making a profit based on NFT, then do not look at collections. What you should do is, find good real artists who are turning their projects to NFT, that would be a lot better.
I personally believe that the best thing to do would be finding a great painter, or any designer, or anyone who is followed by millions, an incredibly loved person, and find their works on NFT markets on their social media. I did something similar once and didn't buy because I was afraid, but that 4k dollar drawing went for 80k just a few weeks later, not because of any NFT reasons, but because the seller was THAT famous person, the person gave the value to it.
The difference is that when you have a coin, the price of it is the same for everyone and there won't be any problem and you know what you are going to get. However, when you are investing into an NFT collection and minting at release along with everyone else, there is a chance you could make a huge profit with it very quickly, how?
Well, simply if you mint the rarest one of that collection, even while the low level bad ones go for 50 bucks, the best one (the rarest one) could go for 10k+ or more. And that means that if you spend 100 bucks on it, then you may get the half back (or maybe not even that much) or you could get 10k for it if you are super lucky. That’s gambling and people are doing that right now with the NFT world.