<…> On the other hand, I don't have any wealth, so I was never attracted to an HW wallet.
When I started off, after reading around the forum for a few days as a novel newcomer to all this, the first thing I did was to go off and purchase a hardware wallet, not knowing really what I was going to protect with it down the line, but pretty convinced that is should be something to acquire before getting any crypto.
I understand though that, for some people, the price may be considered steep (depending on their income, which is related to their country of residence), and they may see it as a luxury in a sense, seeing a better trade-off in buying BTC instead.
In my case I never felt a need for a HW wallet, perhaps because of the conservative way I use BTC. So, I ended up never investing in a HW wallet, recognizing that it would be something useful to have. But I was born in Bitcoin when these things didn't exist or at least weren't very common, which ends up influencing this situation.
But I really have to invest in it. I just don't know if it will be in this wave of discounts... because they aren't even big discounts. Ledger even has an interesting one, which you can return in BTC. But this return is going to require some kind of KYC, which I'm not sure I feel like doing.