I'd love to get away from the two party system. It's a paradox - not many people will vote for a 3rd/no party candidate that doesn't have a chance, and 3rd/no party candidates will never have a chance if not many people are willing to vote for them.
There's no way you believed whoever you voted for had a chance to get even 0.5% of the vote, right? If we could get some version of ranked choice voting then other candidates would be viable. I'd like to see that happen and would almost certainly have a non D or R as my top choice, but until then I see it as a waste. I don't believe that it proves some point, but some do.