Every published Plinko strategy is a way of arranging bets. None of them changes what a bet is worth, because each drop is independent of the last.
The ball has no memory. A slot that has not appeared in a thousand drops is exactly as likely on the next one as it was on the first. Any system built on results being "due" is built on a property the game does not have.
The martingale and its variants recover losses with one win — until the required stake exceeds the balance or the table limit, which happens sooner than intuition suggests. The system converts many small wins into one large loss, and the expected value is unchanged.
Playing high risk exclusively in pursuit of the headline multiplier is a preference for variance, not a strategy. The expected return is identical to low risk; only the shape changes, as the comparison shows.
Moving between settings after a run of losses feels like adaptation. It is not: each drop under the new setting is as independent as it was under the old, and the return is the same.
Sequences appear in random data. Recognising them afterwards is unavoidable; predicting them is not possible, because there is no mechanism producing them.
None of these beats the game. They reduce what it costs.