It is sad because a lot of people had the opportunity and had the opportunity to be patient and yet failed to do so.  It is pretty funny though that we still hear the same nonsense though, "it is tulips", "it is a ponzi", "it will crash", "it doesn't have a use" etc.  I suspect that in another 10 years there will be still people saying similar things.  Likewise, 10-14 years ago, yes, there was a larger chance bitcoin could fail, a lot big chance that bitcoin would take the "worth very little" path as opposed to the "worth a lot" path.  Every year since then the chance that bitcoin would be worth very little in fiat terms has decreased whereas the opposite has increased.

I told a lot of people they should just put a few hundred or a few thousand dollars in bitcoin between 2010 and 2013 with similar arguments:  at worst you'd lose your initial money and at best you'd do really well.  It was a great example of an asymmetric risk / reward.