Re: "investors are unwilling to wait too long"
"people pouring money into Meta (and all the other new shiny tech stocks)"
-- very much reminds me of the heady days leading up to the millennium, when "people" were pouring obscene amounts of money into anything that had a ".com" at the end, with crazy pound signs in their eyes.
I wouldn't say that it all ended badly (although a lot of the sillier things did) -- but there was a > 5 yr dip before the more sensible stuff actually became viable/profitable. So like most good investments, it's definitely not for the short term -- and some due diligence on whether it's "sensible" would also be... er, sensible.