OP makes a very good 👍point, people this days cares more about how much they can make instantly, they don't like waiting around for too long, I am more into what a project have in disposal, if good enough they can turn big in future, I care about the future than now
From what i see, people in past and now is different. Because there are a lot of investor who come from money game too. I mean when ponzi scheme really popular, a lot of investor jump into crypto and some of them are think about short profit. Honestly, in past usually i am only trade and rarely to see condition of altcoin project in this forum, so i am not know about altcoin investor in past. Only see what happen now, investor will ask developer to listed in exchange, pump and then they sell their coin which bought from ICO and then change to other project.