The reality is that they would not have been able to hold for so long even if they bought 10 years ago. Very few have the patience to wait till 100x or more. Most of the investors will be sold at the idea of 2x or 3x itself. Some of the people that were able to hold for so long were those who had invested and then completely forgot about it. There is one more category of people who had complete trust on BTC and thus they stick with it for years.
Yes what you have said is right. Most of those people who do say these are not even able to hold for long period. if they had that opportunity to invest 10 years ago, they wouldn’t have been able to hold it till now. They just say that because they now see that the price of Bitcoin is high, and they’re just wishing that they were able to invest earlier and hold till this time. none of them would have even held their Bitcoin till now.
Even if they try to hold it at that time, when it reached about $2000 or so, they would have rushed to sell their coins immediately, thinking that they have made enough profit and that Bitcoin has reached a really high price, they wouldn’t know that the increase in price would continue even till now.