There many people that had Bitcoin below those price, you have heard of the guy that had 10k Btc and was used to order a Pizza,
you can refer to this thread for confirmation. Imagine the trauma that person will go through if he doesn't really has any Bitcoin after that he pull, he is still been celebrated yearly because that's some millions of dollars he just wasted on a pizza he could have use money instead, some people called it adoption but I can't get over it.
Laszlo Hanyecz don't need to regret about buying pizza with 10k bitcoins because that singular act made many to know that bitcoin can be used as a payment method and again, he also achieve the primary aim of Satoshi for introducing bitcoin which was to stand as a decentralized medium of performing transactions. If not for the volatility of bitcoin such that its value can appreciate with time, do you think many people would have thought of hodling? The major reason why people are holding is literally because they want to make profits from their investment. You don't need to tag Laszlo's act of using bitcoin to buy pizza as a waste because his move was also part of the things that made bitcoin become popular till date because whenever we are celebrating bitcoin pizza day, it's also a kind of creating awareness and exposure about bitcoin such that it can even attract those who never gave it a thought to now consider investing in bitcoin.