Most of us had coins in our wallet when BTC hit $20,000 on December 2017. I sold some of my coins around $15K, but refrained from converting anymore to fiat when the prices rose further. I was hoping to sell some more at $25K and unfortunately that target was never realized. Then the prices went down too quickly and the exchange rate was down to around 8K in 3-4 months. I had to sell some of my coins at this level, as some unexpected expenses had to be taken care of. It may not be possible to wait for 2-3 years for all the users. Some of them may be having financial issues and they might be forced to sell their coins early.
I too was greedy when Bitcoins hit $20k and instead of cashing out I thought why not hodl, it’ll definitely rise upwards and I’ll get more profits but as we all know bitcoin prices took a sudden dump and we all had to live with our decisions. @bryant.coleman ours is a similar story as I also had to cash out at lower levels due to certain unexpected expenses, but I don’t regret it as I understood a valuable lesson of life that is not to be greedy.