Every time he wants to log in after a while, it is either he does password recovery to log in, so people like that will find it quite difficult to manage several storage, but there is still nothing bad actually in storing in a storage, it helps you to be more organized and to be able to keep an eye on your coins at once.
In this case, the joke is on your friend. This does not have anything to do with the safer or more secure manner of storing coins, whether single storage or multiple storage. This is all about an individual's responsibility or his failure to store or keep his passwords, seeds, keys, pins, and whatever important information in a safe place where he could easily access them.
As for me, it is always better to store your coins in multiple storage rather than on a single one. This does not need much explanation. With a single storage, it only takes a single attack for you to lose your entire portfolio. It will not happen with multiple storage.