Imagine buying Ripple at $3 and someone talks to you about patience and hodl. Patience worked until now only for bitcoin and ethereum. All the rest are too far from ATH and we can expect they will dissappear completely when the bear market starts.
Buying Ripple for $ 3 in one unit is insane and whenever someone can be patient, he will still lose because a sick Ripple will not be able to get past $ 3 in the near future as well for a long time, in contrast to Bitcoin and Ethereum which can always recover in the near future without having to wait long.