Defence of Coldcard's featureset and reputation

Steve Barbour, replying to Wicked's thread on the features Coldcard brought to the category, argues that Coldcard had the best featureset of any hardware wallet and that people bought it mainly for that reason rather than because of podcast shills or maxi influencers, and that Coinkite had been well regarded since the Opendime for its innovation and cypherpunk ideals. Held because it is a dated, direct rejection of the paid-influencer framing that other material in this record advances, including Ben Hart's same-day reflections and BasedLayer's influencers-over-engineers argument. The record carries both readings of why buyers chose the device without choosing between them; this one is the poster's own and is not verified here.