When I used their smart chain, I had no problem with it until they became popular and NFT games used their smart chain for their platforms that began the worst journey of my life using their Smart chain because the transaction fees where became high to the point it has no decent income anymore when playing NFT games using their blockchain and to make it worse, they can't seem to find any other way to reduce it and that's their huge problem which makes other competitors like Matic to create their own and fixed that problem on their platforms which will not gonna be the same to theirs.

That's not the only reason that a lot of us are afraid of new and "promising" tokens, remember that most of them if not all aren't really promising and they're just like that because someone said so about that token and because those people are early adopters that will stand to gain the most when that token is shilled to a lot of people. Another thing that would make it difficult for someone to invest in those tokens is that there's a lot of them in the market everyday and you don't know which one's you're going to put your money into and it's probably going to take you a long time to make a profit in any of them because they're most likely the kind that would take their time in growing and it's really difficult for some of them to get in if you want an airdrop, they make you jump through hoops to garner engagement from the people and at the same time you're actively evading scams and phishing links that latch on to this airdrops.

Buying altcoin to play games! GameFi project requires their users to buy tokens from the open market to access their game? I didn't know that as i have always seen, all of those games are free to access and the only usecase of their token is in their marketplace where items and upgradeable things can be purchased. Its not new for investors to buy a token for fun. I have heard about some people who bought some token just for fun which turned into fortune later on.