RE:Had you invested $10,000 in Apr 2019You are referring to a point in time when COVID lockdowns beat the living tar out of every sector (minus medical). You might want to go pick a few stocks and go back to that period to see that eveything was trading lower back then.
The Cannabis sector has yet to fully recover from that sell off however the larger players in the sector survived and bought out the other players who did not manage their cash flow as well. Those who got acquired had strong product offerings which as now under the umbrella of the bigger players.
Don't worry, down the road you will be seeing the same articles about investing $10,000 at one point in time however praising those who invested the $10k while the stock was much lower.
The $10,000 dollar articles have been around for decades, they just get recycled to either pump a stock or bash it.