To be honest sometimes i feel that im still early but when i remember that Bitcoin was at lower price than 1$ i feel disappointed, I can't lie to myself and say that im early and i really think that I wasted a hige life opportunity because i heard about Bitcoin back in 2015, but unfortunately i wasn't brave enough to invest my money on it
It's definitely not early in 2022 in terms of Bitcoin as a whole.
To be that early you would have needed to be CPU mining in 2009.
But it doesn't matter because you can be early in other stages of Bitcoin.
For example some people were early in the GPU mining stage
Others in the ASIC mining stage.
Others in the Lightning era, etc.
Each stage has it's own pros and cons.
You can be early to any future stage.
You can now for example create a service based on lightning, that would not have been possible in 2009.