I will agree with you, it is not a way to make money from hold the bitcoin for a long long time. No one good business man think about it, Even we know that the last date of bitcoin, may be tomorrow bitcoin suddenly die. Than what we will do with our bitcoin. So better is that always look after the price of bitcoin for holding.
You know i hold my bitcoins for a year, but still i want to hold them again, because it is easy way to earn money from bitcoin. But i know the rule of holding.