People have done that, the S&P493 has done about 4-5% growth, from memory 
If we want to move away from broad index investing one can do all sorts of things. The ill-defined Quality factor makes sense to me following Julianek’s post here so I have it in my 3A and some on the liquid account.
Re Ben Felix’s videos, I like them learnt a ton from them, real high-quality stuff. My one slight issue is not even a valid criticism: he is too focused on the data and leaving aside emotion. He’s a portfolio manager so he needs to remain strict on the data and scientific in his method not to be accused of being a low-quality content creator - there’s a ton of them already! I understand all this and hence can’t slight his videos, I just find them a bit dry and no longer applicable to me in terms of not making big mistakes. I’d love some opinion, some character from what’s clearly a very charismatic person. Maybe in the rational reminder podcasts there is that. I watched the vid, it could be summarized as “Don’t chase past performance because super fast, super high growth can be followed by low future returns”, it’s no longer addressed to me though.