Green rows forever or chasing the 1000x edges with Plinko risk settings?

i've been messing with plinko more than i should and i can't decide if the low risk boards are just there to keep you sitting there watching green rows forever. you get all these little hits and it looks clean, but the balance barely moves unless you sit through a ton of drops.

when i switch it up and go higher risk, at least it looks like there's a point to it. i'm not talking about yolo max bet shit, just trying to give the edge slots a real chance with smaller bets. the 1000x is there, but it also feels like you're burning through way more drops before anything decent lands.

what's getting me is whether the risk setting changes anything beyond how the multipliers are laid out, because the drop path always looks random anyway (or supposed to). if the rtp is the same, then low risk just seems like a slower way to lose.

i'm trying to figure out if there is any real reason to grind the green rows instead of chasing the edges when that's where the only proper hit is coming from (on paper)