That's what I was going to recommend--why waste money on a HW wallet just to store bitcoin? Assuming you're going to keep it long-term, it would be so much cheaper and probably more convenient to transfer your bitcoin to an Electrum wallet, write down or stamp the seed phrase into a piece of metal and keep it in a safe place. You'd have to basically do the same thing with a HW wallet anyway, right?
On the one hand, one doesn't need a special device for key management if the main goal was holding bitcoin long-term until it becomes something more than a speculative asset, perhaps widely adopted legal tender. On the other hand, a hardware wallet can be very useful if there is a need for periodic transfers. Especially, it is very important when it comes to newbies. One of the reasons why I consider this type of wallet newbie-friendly is that it allows to safely operate on a system full of trojans, keyloggers, etc. Secret keys never leave a device, which means they cannot be intercepted or stolen by a malicious attacker. The second reason is that a hardware wallet is a good source of entropy, which means it can be utilized as a tool for generating truly random wallets offline. The third reason is when one invests in something like a hardware wallet, one inevitably goes through some educational information regarding recommendations on how to interact with cryptocurrencies properly. In other words, before you start to use something you have never dealt with, you usually read the manual. I believe it might help a bit to not mess things up.