I have just started to figure out steem, steem dollars and steem power and now I am hearing about bitcoin forks and EOS. Anybody else out there as confused as I am?

The more I read the more confused I get.

Should I be buying this EOS? ... is it too late?
If I do buy should I just hold on to it for a year or two?

What I have figured out so far:

~I understand that people who bought earlier got more shares given to them
~I also understand that the price is based on market price not a set price
~there are a set number of tokens that will be made

Is this something that is going to be worth the average newbies time and money or are we better off of trying to accumulate as much steem as we can?