I'm no collector, but an intermittent hoarder.
Collecting sounds more curated and stuff. I just buy a lot of cigars.
Seems like every hobby I'm headfirst all in for a while, then my interest wanes and I get out, then I'll dabble in it for a bit, stop for a while, then go all in again. Or I'll sell off all my toys and be done for good. Usually only to get back in and buy everything again.
3-4 years ago I was "done with cigars" I wasn't smoking often, I quit buying, and planned to smoke down my stash to a desktop and just keep a handful around or smoke em all and be done. I got down to a desktop and in October wife asked me to get some cigars together to give her dad for his birthday. I had less than a dozen left and they're all aged ultra premiums, 3 earmarked for palama already. So I started shopping around looking for deals and $4k later I'm back in, smoking at least daily, reading about cigars, buying cigars, organizing and inventorying cigars, trading cigars, bombing cigars, reviewing cigars etc.
A year or two from now I'll probably be back to once a week tops, not buying any, neglecting my humidors (thank God for sealed cases and bovedas).