Because currently, I can say from 100% experience that - a novice listening to some of the "security strategy" advice given on this board is about in as much financial peril as a person who refuses to sell his stocks at the clear beginning of a market crash because his broker told him its all good, and part of a "cost averaging strategy".
I created paper wallets as relative newbie. You can bet your arse I tested them inside out with multiple dust sweeps before committing any real funds to one. Once that was done I backed them up about ten times over.
It didn't take any research to realise that the potential to send it all up in smoke was there. As with everything else in this space, you have to make your own conclusions rather than blindly following others. There's good info to be found out there but ultimately it has to be your call.
That's not how the majority operate but there are more hand holding options than ever before. The ease with which your money can disappear is very unfortunate but this is still a rather raw technology and it shouldn't be passed off as anything else right now.