If you are talking about those who bought DOGE during this last ATH, I don't think they are in a bad situation. In my opinion, there may be another pump at any time that will raise the price above $0.10, maybe even up to $0.15. Then everyone will be able to earn nicely. And again, we will be sorry for those who buy during that pump. This is how that market looks like. We can do nothing with it.
I agree that pump is a bad place to buy and nobody should do that but I also agree that it is not end of the world neither. I think buying at pump means you will profit less than anyone else and waiting for pump to be over with (after dump I mean) you will have a much better price to sell, but I also believe that doge could very well be as high as 0.25 as well and who can say it will never be there, this is crypto after all and crazier things happened so I totally get that it could very well be a lot higher.
So, we are in a situation where dogecoin will profit anyone who has bought it, it will break over the all time high price and reach to a profitable level, but when you will sell and profit will decide on timing, some people will profit very quickly, some people will profit later on, but everyone will profit if they wait long enough.