Some honest assessment of my investing strategy and why "steady but surely" beats "get rich now" if you're not devoted to trading

I've recently been dealing with a lot of stress due to losses trading and not timing the AI boom properly, leaving me not only in the red but relatively much worse than if I had just bought an indexed ETF following the general market. This led to me doing some assessment of how much money I would have made had I followed the wisdom of the crowd and not try to DYI my investments. I've held most of my NW in cash, around ~$200k because since 2022 I've been waiting for "The Big Crash" and doing taxe