I'm gonna predict that in a 10-year trend, the house price inflation will have continued. Unless you could save faster than the bubble, you still wouldn't be getting/keeping a house in 10 years.

I'd have been WAY better off if I stayed at my parents and invested it all into the S&P or something similar, or even bitcoin (inb4 it's going to crash). Then kept building/working/saving, and in 10y I'll have been in a much better position.

Hindsight is 20/20 and you can't extract value from the economy without changing it. The values of certain things go up or down because certain people are or aren't investing in them. If everyone who wished they'd behaved differently had behaved differently, they often wouldn't even be any better off.

Somehow the little guy always ends up taking most of the system's losses, though.