I was forced to sell those cryptocurrencies at a significantly lower price and accepted my loss which led me to believe that hodling is indeed a form of gambling and thus has a risk / reward factors associated with it.
"Hodling is a form gambling?" I don't think so, but it depends on how you manage your trade, how you hold a coin. If you hold and then greedy, then it can be called gambling, holding also requires TP and SL, only with targets far high from daily trading.
well, but I'm quite impressed with you because you don't feel least bit sorry for your greed. That is exemplary, because we should be, making decisions and accepting all risk.