I agree with you that throwing money at anyone who tells you they can take an unlimited investment and offer compounding returns on it is a recipe for disaster. But in DeFi, intelligence and strategy translate directly to greater yield. Math has proven time and again that those things matter very little in traditional markets.
You're all over the place with your usage of concepts.
Here you say that intelligence and strategy matter little in "traditional" (vague) markets. Yet, in DeFi, they do.
Not buying it. It feels like I could copy and replace your replace all of your uses of "DeFi" in this thread with <insert ponzi scheme>.
It's "different" than normal markets...I made it work personally (but not at scale)...