The only crypto goal I had was based on getting to 21 bitcoins the DCA way (though this term wasn't used at the time), this was a challenge in one of the threads here on the forum some few years back, and having had to start to save when crypto prices were below a thousand dollars seemed very much possible but in the process btc price jumped to $10k and before you knew it was already floating around $20k and my saving plan was completely distorted which pushed me to learn how to trade on charts and abandon the bitcoin saving plan
Lol, I believe with your little experience, you have seen how interesting Bitcoin investment can be. When Bitcoin was below a thousand dollars, many people thought the price would not be above a thousand boxes, but now the price of Bitcoin has surprised so many people who were skeptical about it.
Well, in your story I feel that you thought Bitcoin would take a long time to go above $1k and that was why you didn't put much effort into accumulating more, then when bitcoin hits $10k maybe you didn't have enough money to buy more and now Bitcoin's price is 27,142.50, that's is why you joined the trading section.
What I will say is that any little opportunity you have try and buy more coins, because, sooner Bitcoin will hit $50k to $7k and then many people will regret for not take Bitcoin investment serious.