How can you say you lost $80,000 when you didn't have any Zclassic when the price spiked? You didn't lose anything.
That's like saying you lost $50,000,000 because you didn't buy a lottery ticket that might have won.
In any case, there are plenty of other moonshot opportunities, just invest $500 each into the top 10 promising candidates, you only need one to succeed to recoup your investment and more.
True, he maybe lost an opportunity but he never lost any value at all from his/her investments. No one could even predicted that it will moon at that time and it is still much better than selling it after the market crashes so he still did a good move for his/her investments though it turned out to be not the best.