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.
You are absolutely right. There is no point in wasting your time in thinking about "what if I had held those coins" scenario. This has happened to me as well. I sold half of my Bitcoins in 2015, when the price was only around $200 per coin. Imagine what I could have done with all those coins now.