Bitcoin will not collapse. Even without miners getting any more rewards for mining a bitcoin, the reward they will get from the transactions fees of processing bitcoin into the blockchain will be enough for them to continue. Bitcoin will be more scarce by that time, and I’m sure the price of it will be far higher than what it is today, so definitely the miners rewards from transaction fees will be sufficient for them to continue mining. The protocol has been designed to be a continuous process, so I don’t see bitcoin mining coming to  an halt if there are not more bitcoins to mine again.

I think an experienced user will just use Electrum or something else to manage their coins instead of relying on an exchange. It's such a start to move from a self-custody option to a centralized platform like that. Not to mention if HW is gone for whatever reason, then there's a higher chance that the platform is using software that has questionable security, too. If they use Electrum or something similar, then why would we have to rely on them instead of securing our wealth ourselves?

The problem is that will never happen, the government will never let an internet blackout happen, let alone for a week.

Water is an essential nutrient and humans would die without it. Likewise, the role of the Internet in the modern world economy is extremely essential and important. Without it, the economy would collapse. Therefore, the scenario of a global internet shutdown for a week or more is unlikely.

I know this is just hypothetical but come up with more realistic hypotheticals, discussing situations that are likely to never happen is pointless.

Perhaps a flag is next, after I figure out how they work.  

anyone who hires you should be tagged as well. 

Just know that the big economies like the United States and China can not make such law.

Bitcoin goes live in 2009 and the first commercially available hardware wallet was launched in 2014.
Guess what happen between those years where hardware wallet didn't existed?. Yes people use desktop wallet, always has been.
I hope this answers it clearly.

Never should any legitimate service rent anything from this user. He is a spamming parasite and is hurting this forum. Any service that would consider hiring him should be considered dishonest and untrustworthy.

This is not possible, all governments in the world can not think the same. When China banned bitcoin mining that time in 2021 or so, it was an opportunity for country like Kazakhstan which encouraged bitcoin mining and the country is using coal for energy generation. Know that if a country say something, another country may say another thing.

If it suddenly stops, it will be difficult to sustain mining on transaction fees alone. This would certainly put security at risk and the future of bitcoin would be uncertain. But only time will tell whether it can survive. I don't think that will happen at all. But if it does, the market would be completely destroyed.

If this were to happen, as crazy as it sounds, it's not going to do anything, as other members have said. Perhaps some dislike those hardware manufacturers that should have been fulfilling their role as a reliable one.

This would just be reputational consequences for the manufacturers. Nothing else.

For faster payments we already have lightning which is pretty cool.

Anything is possible, but I don't think this current time it takes for a transaction to get confirmed is too long to be patient for, depending on how the mempool is congested or less busy.