Articles like these IMO as not helpful to the yet to be orange pilled crowd.
Or at least not yet hardware wallet crowd.
Education needs to be around not storing private keys on malware riddled PCs.
I doubt any newbies are reading these kinds of articles, they're still getting into terms with hot wallets, but I think its important to give you all the trade offs with each one.
Depending on how parioniod you are, you could pick your solution.
Some sleep at night with a hot walet with all their bitcoin Others have a multi-sig with different HW devices and a Virtual machine device with key
To each their own
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