I am right behind your opinions.
If a newbie is opportune to have someone who is genuine and that can put him or her through in bitcoin , then it is a privilege because they would have to learn from the experience and mistake of the person.
Where a genuinely person is involved for guidance, then it is a privilege because that primary trusted source initiates you the ideal to sanitize and digest words related to Bitcoin and crypto discussions or online articles before you steps in so that you don't get misleaded on the wrong informations.
The newbie will be privileged to learn from the old folks experiences with references which would caution the newbie to stay more at alert and skeptic to strangers and their unverified goals towards the informations they spreads and will optimize the newbie to explore beyond with the efforts of making their own researches.
But I think newbies needs not to be too relaxed or to be relying so much on people who will put them through because most newbies always go into the hands of those who take advantage of them because they are novice in bitcoin.
Newbies trusting anyone in guidance to their Bitcoin or crypto journey is best up to them and they should understand the potential breach of trust about finance is not what to be undertaking casual.
I also understand how hard it is for someone not being able to find a trusted person can either not easily the internet even when the source is genuine like the bitcointalk forum.
He will always need a referral with some basic orientations before you can stay reliably and begin to explore on your own otherwise, it is indeed a trait to trust anyone while you are still a beginner.
Newbies needs to try their best to learn things on their own bitcoin journey is a personal journey and most time when you are not smart enough you become victim of scam. Newbies while having someone who his putting you through you also need to try your best to always do your own research.
I usually that smart move of saying YES to your guidance but before you digests the words, you will always go behind to verify if he was legit on the process or not. From there you as a newbie will begin sourcing your ways from different angles while comparing if the informations are matched to be a legit.