If I think Ethereum price compared 5 years ago, maybe that the definition of cheap price if we compared to latest modern price. The old days is the top opportunity to say that eth brought us a comfortable life in terms of cryptocurrency, same with erc20 platform tokens. My advice to old token holders is to monitor the community where it belongs with, and if there's no future then dump it while there's certain value.
Paying ETH fees which are consider to be really expensive and more often the fastest means of crypto transactions. Comparing Ethereum price 5 years ago, it was very affordable but we missed such big opportunity but there's no regrets because most of us didn't have the knowledge then. Ethereum was one of the most bullish projects after Bitcoin, it's existence have boosted some trader's portfolio and has also drained most trader's that didn't follow the appropriate footsteps of good tips in trading. Cryptocurrency is risky to anticipate in so its always advisable to be extremely cautious when dealing with the market, not all trades should be triggered.