You can always get wealthy with BTC. Even in the bear market you can do margin trading and still get rich
Not everyone is lucky, and I dont even think that any of those people that started Bitcoin then as early as 2010 or so, were able to Hodl it till 2017 or now. Bitcoin was having up and downs then (going through fluctuations) and majority of them, since they dont know that such bull as of last year would come must have probably sold with the intention of making profit and buying later.