its absolutely not a lottery ticket. Buy and HODL was an hard choice, information were not easy to grab and conceptualize, and it required a really good imagination to figure out that bitcoin would really work. Today is obvious, even because OGs elaborated this infos and made them available to more normie people to understand.
Everyone has his history and could have his excuses, but the "everyone gets bitcoin at the price they deserved" is the best approximation and I, a young pleb 2021-class, fully agree with it.

Also, if you really was a child back then, you probably have youth, and this is more precious than any bitcoin; I feel wealthier than most OGs bitcoiner, for example

Humble people recognize their merit and their demerits, I recognize that in 2017 when first heard about bitcoin, didnt buy cause still was an adolescent without much money but also I had the demerit to not understanding absolute anything about money and why bitcoin should have been valuable.

Everyone has his own history, humble people will make the best from the possibilities that life will present to them;
crybabies/communists/evil people will judge smarter/virtuous/braver people and their property.