The point stands that it is not "lost forever".
When you invest in the stock market, and the market crashes, THAT money is lost forever. This is not that.
When you invest in the stock market, and the market crashes, THAT money is lost forever. This is not that.
No, it isn't, because the price can go back up in the future. In this case, there is no hope of recovery unless you count the entire network pretending this never happened as recovery. Ironically, the real stock market is more immutable in practice than Eth.