Many people are relenting to trade or invest but assuming the pumps start now, everybody will wants to come back and make money. People can not endure test of time, everybody is taking out their bitcoin investment because they've no strong foundation for bitcoin but those staying and keep trust the project of bitcoin will reap the reward of their patients.
This what in 2011, people miss opportunity to be rich by the act of impatient and remorse of system crashed but we are strong enough come rain come shine we will still wait for good days to come. Bitcoiners for life
I think the writer was a bit confusing from your tittle but your points are good though when it comes to investment of capital people are very calculative not to incurs excess loss or regrets and at this point I don't blame anybody taking their money because how do you think this saga of bitcoin deepening price will last, guy people's capital is just reducing every second, some even invest with little amount and the capital has vanished over time.
There is nothing bad to holds if you're comfortable with that but if you're not you sell off and relax your mind from the deep until probably bitcoin has a head way again. There is nothing like foundation in cryptosystem because you're not the one that build it we only journey along, people who knows the foundations should be the pioneers of the projects, lol, they can lightly tells us our faers. But been patients or not does not guarantees the safety of your trade capital or investment.