When I was still a newbie to crypto many people told me to keep holding and that's all I did for many years and in the end I ended up with many dead coins, whenever I keep seeing people talking about patience as if it's the only thing a newbie need I always shake my head, the fact is you need more than patience to get good results from projects, having patience sometimes will get you nothing
IMO I don't think they were wrong, imagine you bought and held bitcoin during those times it was very cheap, by now you would be having millions of dollars in your wallet rather than another dead coin, I came across a tweet where CZ said only those who can hold will be rich, and that's a fact, hold ingis good but it matters on which coin you are holding, if you keep holding a coin that doesn't have anything to offer it will die and become a shit coin over time, trying holding coins that seem to have a good future and thank me later, lol.