Well since you talk about projects like Vechain and Sia, I do remember that timeline and after which the ICO craze hype bubble poofed.
Coming back to topic, I always suggest users to do research on projects on their own and not listen to a third party service. The reasons are simple:
1. The sites run for money. They will stop at nothing to shill a project that is paying them so as to give them a good rating.
2. I have had contact with people from such sites in the past, they literally state that they will accept money to "modify" ratings for the ICOs that they gave a <3/5 rating.
3. Many of these sites were actually shut down quickly after some crackdown happened on ICOs and they are no longer heard of from like ICObench.
So to give you fair advice, since you already have a background on stock market, invest only in bitcoin. Do no go for altcoins because they are just not sustainable for a long term growth. Everything in altcoins is just smoke and mirrors and having seen 99% of them ending up as failures and scams (a fact that you maybe missed because you had left), I no longer them any importance and I was right in doing so because they quickly changed names from ICO>STO>IEO and so on. Now the DeFi and NFT are the new crazes.
If you want to make money in crypto, stalk bitcoin and stock bitcoin when you get the low price.