You got to understand something that happened to Andreas Antonopoulos a while ago to understand why he might have made the decision to hodl and not spend his coins. A few years ago Andreas Antonopoulos announced that he has almost no Bitcoins (BTC) and people roasted him on social media.
That's what I was thinking while reading the OP's post. But you've only told half the story. The one who
mocked him shamefully was Roger Ver, and what happened is that people massively sided with Andreas and gave him donations for about 100 Bitcoins. That was in 2017 when the price was over $17K.
After that it was easier for him to save the Bitcoin, that's for sure.