I have not heard the rest of the case for that point but it sounds highly copium.
What nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8 said in the latest Bitcoin.Review pod really reasonated with me
Something along the lines of “if you make hardware wallet UX too easy, people will not grasp the importance of self-custody”
It was using a Coldcard for the first time that I realized that this was serious business.
Make it too seamless and people won’t differentiate between self-custody and holding their wealth in an exchange wallet.
Discussion
I think it comes down to user preference but for me the initial complexity of signing an airgaped transaction made me want to understand more about the different treath models and trade-offs of different HWWs