I am making this thread to let us all know that nobody is safe, be you an OG or newbie, you need to get yourself a hardware wallet if you must hold your bitcoins and other crypto assets with rest of mind.
I think the right advice should be get yourself a cold wallet, hardware wallet isn’t the only cold or offline wallet. You can safely set up an offline wallet on airgapped device and it will work same as an hardware wallet.
Also hardware wallet or probably all cold wallet isn’t just the problem but also how we back up our seed phrase or keys. Even with hardware wallet if you don’t store your seeds properly it will still be needless.
This is what I was thinking as well, a hardware wallet without a doubt is a practical device for those that do not really know how to secure their computers and coins on their own, but if you have an old laptop lying around and you install Linux in it, keep it updated, keep it offline and you only use it when you want to make a transaction then you can get the same functionality than a hardware wallet, however if a person does not really think they can do all of that then they could go through the hardware wallet route and keep their coins secure that way.