Have hope and shift your focus, since the paradigm of (some) cards have changed.
With the price of cards through the roof to meet the increased demand brought on by work from home plus stimulus money in 2021 resulting from the pandemic, I created a post a while back asking how have you supplemented your card collecting and still found ways to enjoy the hobby. My example (cost less than a few hundred $ total) is below and the thread is here if you'd like to contribute:
https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=317438