I appreciate your opinion! I know someone who seems to be pretty successful in applying the Elliot Waves theory to his day-trading and, at least in retrospective, you can often clearly see the wave patterns, so there is definitely something to the theory.
I totally agree that the crypto space is way too unpredictable and manipulatable for technical analysis to work reliably or as reliably as it can.
I am following Node investor as well and I believe he is the one I learned the most from. Haven't heard of Clif High yet. His tweets are mostly non-crypto related. Has he shifted focus?