"Stocks I wouldn't mind getting assigned" is a myth

It's something that keeps showing up left and right on Reddit as a way to select stocks to sell puts on. Just because you think a stock is a good pick today, it doesn't mean you'll continue to think so when you get assigned. If you think a stock is a good pick, just buy the stock. Selling puts on that stock means that if you are right and the stock is fantastic, you are missing on the upside and are just keeping the premium. But if you are wrong or if something you don't think of happens and the stock tanks, you are exposed to all the downside. The mindset of a lot of people is that if a stock falls, it's just market noise and their thesis today about the stock will remain the same in the future as well, and therefore they would be happy to buy the stock at a discount. But if you get to buy the stock at the "discount", it's because the market now thinks it's worth less than that amount, and your thesis is that the market is wrong. Investment is not about picking the stocks or strikes or dtes that are guaranteed to win. It's about probabilities and putting yourself in a position that you are more likely to profit than lose on average, and pray that in the long term, the good stuff happen more than or with a larger amount than the bad stuff. Rant complete.