All this talk about using an exchange to switch coins is confusing me

I probably shouldn't have brought up the subject in my previous post. I was just stating a personal preference based on how past coins did swapovers and such. If it's just a hard fork and all goes to plan, it would unlikely be needed.
Seems I accidentally spread confusing info just by posting a preference. Now I see how easy it is for evil people to spread fud, which of course wasn't my intention here. Sorry for any confusion.