Holding always pays of. If you choose your coin wisely the gain will be more than day trading. And not everyone have the patiencen to learn and research that is needed for day trading
Holding does require a lot of patience and just like you said that not everyone can do that,
both day trading and holding have their respective risks,
and what is clear is that there is no easy way to do day trading or holding both has its own level of difficulty
the patience required for holding can be immense, when the price we hold is getting near to ath it will make holding seem profitable and easy but when the price is nearing the bottom, it will make us want to sell because the market seem like go do down further while the market always move like that, if we hold for long term we will see many of bear and bull market, it has its own advantage and disadvantage just like with day trading.