To be fairly honest, I think you are late if you want to buy NFT now, even if you can make some profit it will be quite low. Looking at previous crypto trend like ICO, and DeFi their popularity keep decreasing when bear market like this happening, and after the bear market end and bullish come the popularity does not come back and then the new trend come. So, if you have unused money laying around you can buy NFT and just leave it and pray, but if you are not ready to lose your money, my advice would be just wait.
The hype is completely gone and it is doubtful it will ever return, in this market it is incredibly easy to manipulate newbies in order to invest in all kinds of crazy stuff that at the end of the day is not going to have any kind of long term value.
But once those newbies realize they have been deceived and all of those NFTs are worth nothing or a lot less than what they paid for them that is when all the hype begins to disappear, as other newbies begins to see what's happening in that market and despite their lack of knowledge they begin to realize that investing in such market is a big mistake, so anyone that is thinking in investing in those assets is just wasting their time.
Although the NFT trend has not ended, it has been seen that quite a few investors are no longer pursuing NFT in a bear market situation
as it is now. Finally this year the price of NFT is falling and it is not recommended to buy it, because as you said it is very doubtful that
NFT can return to the hype. So if buying NFT this year, the risk is very high, it is very likely that we will lose money if we buy NFT now.
However, this year it is better to focus on investing in top coins that have strong fundamentals, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, which has
proven to be very good for long term investments.
While NFT in my opinion is not for long-term investment, then only newbies who lack knowledge and experience are still interested in NFT,
where the newbie is usually influenced by influencers who promote NFT. Even though we all know when we are going to invest in the crypto world,
we only believe in our own research and analysis, other people's opinions only make us take wrong decisions and will regret in the end.