On the time that Bitcoin was just into its early years then only a few did make out have that trust on investing into it without even having those kind of hopes or insights about becoming big in the near future and on the time comes that Bitcoin did hit up those bull run prices or new all time highs then for sure it did spark out and make those early adopters to find their Bitcoin stash on which this one included for course. No one had ever been that believing that Bitcoin would really come that far and it would really be just that normal that you would really be finding where those coins been hiding and been stored and we know that on that time which only a few do mind about their coins because it was cheap but on the time that it did make out some huge movement then this is where
stash-digging happens.

This would be a good read up in talks about lost wallets.
https://buybitcoinworldwide.com/lost-wallets/

You could really be able to say on how such a waste on losing those coins which value over billions of dollars but well there's nothing we can
do about it since it is really that lost and floating in the void forever.