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Good question!

Very simple answer - using physical/analog ONLY actually defeats the purpose of air gapping.

If you write your answer on a piece of paper, you'll have to type it into an internet connected device as soon as you want to sign a transaction.

With a hardware device, the seed phrase is generated on an air gapped device, and remained air gapped even when signing a transaction.

Paper or engraved metal backups should only be used in a recovery scenario to move your funds to a new hardware wallet.

If you write your answer on a piece of paper, you'll have to type it into an internet connected device as soon as you want to sign a transaction.

You don't need internet to sign...

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This, +100.

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