Cool, yeah. That would be the ideal. But honestly most people are too dumb for a hardware wallet, they will do something dumb like store their seed phrase in plain text unencrypted in the cloud or something...
If they really want to use BTC, they can learn all there is to learn, it is not hard. Backing up a seed phrase on paper and keeping it safe, of possible in more than one location should not be difficult for someone who is interested in storing BTC. Hardware wallets are also newbie-friendly, it is not complicated to use, i believe security is the most important factor to consider before buying BTC is security, and your funds are only secure if you have good opsec and if it is in your self custodial, open source wallet