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
patience is not bad, the only thing why it became useless it is because you made the wrong altcoins that you hold in the long term.
It was in your choice dude. But if you choose the right one to hold in the long term, I am pretty sure the applications of your patience
will be useful of course.