The problem with trading is that you have to be at the cutting edge almost all of the time, it's extremely hard to achieve. With AI methods becoming commonplace, the human is becoming even more irrelevant. This is why investing is a better bet for more and more people. Just like you, my results lately aren't anything to brag about. Meanwhile the guy who read a Twitter post and bought a few mo-mos is bragging about his triple digit returns. Was he smarter? I don't think so as he didn't even consider the more complex strategies.
90s dot-com bubble, house flippers from around 2004-2007, crypto traders (who had never traded anything else in their lives) making double-digit monthly returns in 2017, the list goes on. It's the old adage: Never confuse genius with a bull market.