Ideally couldn't you say this about $TAO as well? This is the growth pains of a pure launch.

Everything may not be profitable from day one, that's just not how the market works. If you believe in the Bittensor long term then accumulating as much $TAO as possible is the game. 

As a minor, your job is to learn how to do it as efficiently as possible, if you can't do that or aren't willing to take the upfront lost for the long-term gain then yeah... probably time to close the door.

That's the market.