Maybe not, but in my experience I made a few mistakes the first time I started learning. I’m by no means an expert, but it was helpful to learn without putting my whole stack at stake. After watching some tutorials, I sent a few small test transactions back and forth and watched them get processed on a block explorer. Overall really cool experience. My second go around I was a lot more careful and paranoid writing down my seed phrases out of view from my phone camera, etc. But all kind of moot since eventually dropped it in the toilet and lost everything

I prefer the T, it's worth the extra money. I have a model 1 that's still great as well, though.