@OP I can teach you how to properly secure your funds. We can do it here or if you'd like you can PM me.
Paper wallets can be the absolute best option for long term storage if you do it right. Hardware wallets, however, constantly have vulnerabilities found out. Don't believe me. Go ahead and Google "hardware wallet vulnerability". You'll notice that the vulnerabilities have come out over many years and fresh ones have just been found out. They're obviously not properly tested, other than of course the general public buying them and reporting vulnerabilities.
Don't blindly trust third parties (hardware wallet manufacturers) because of this mishap. Learn from it, change your method accordingly and sleep easy knowing you'll never have to worry about your funds being stolen again.
Show me one example where the user lost funds due to any detected vulnerability in any hardware wallet? Most of these vulnerabilities required physical access to user device and a superior level of technical knowledge.
For some reason you are against hardware wallets, but if OP is using one we would not have this thread and he would still have 1
BTC. Your ideas about insecurity of HW are not groundless, they are not 100% safe - but most of vulnerabilities you are talking about are fixed before they became known to the public.