I think I'm finally at a point where I can put my finger a little more articulately on the gap that is left in the wake of the Coldcard incident, and it's honestly a lot more important and fundamental than I initially thought. It's not just losing "airgaps" or a specific feature...it's literally losing a MASSIVE degree of freedom that just doesn't exist anywhere else really in the hardware offerings in this space (other than DIY projects, which to each though own, I am not interested in using). Coldcard didn't require a specific app to sign transactions. It didn't require an app to generate keys. It didn't require an app to update your device firmware. It wasn't just the airgap, and security arguments around that, it was the FREEDOM that came with that. _You did not depend on Coinkite in anyway to actually use your device after you bought it from them_. Name me another device you can say that about. Show me one reputable hardware wallet that doesn't REQUIRE their app to generate keys, or update firmware, doesn't leak your xpub to their server during initial set up if your computer is online. As someone who has only used Coldcard for close to a decade, the reality of how much vendor lock, and dependency on manufacturers software, and the inability to opt out of that or the information leaks it creates is finally sinking in. It's disgusting. There are a lot of solid teams out there, solid hardware architectures, solid devices, but the totality of the entire user experience around all of them in one way or another leaves me feeling gross. The idea of using any of them makes me feel like I am trapped, not fully in control of my own money. Just the thought feels constricting. I don't know what to do about this, and I know for a lot of normie users these things won't matter, but they do to me. It's incredibly disappointing, and I don't know what to do about it.