Regardless if you actually frequently use your hardware wallet or not, even though if it's just locked up somewhere, it will still deteriorate, just as most electronics. Because of multiple things like moisture and such, that could potentially be huge factors in rendering your hardware wallet useless sometime in the future.
Anyway, people don't purchase and use hardware wallets for lifetime storage anyway. You have paper and or steel sheets for that purpose. People buy hardware wallets to be able to send funds with minimum risk of exposing the private keys.
That's another problem because we have unstable weather condition here in my country that sometimes the weather condition is very hot and sometimes it's very cold. So I'm sure that this hardware wallet won't survive if we are living on cold places because it may lead to hardware issue.
Yeah exactly that the hardware wallet only use for everyday use not for lifetime storage, most people here treat hardware wallet as a lifetime storage of the coins and hold their coins for a long long time as what I see from other forum members here. They mostly recommend this wallet to hold coins for a long time.
Everything in the world has limitation. That is why I created this thread because of this to clear my doubt.
The hardware wallet's lifetime doesn't matter. As long as my Ledger Nano S survives for 10 years minimum, then I'm good. I'm pretty sure in a decade from now most existing hardware wallets are going to be obsolete anyway. They weren't made to survive lifetimes in the first place.
Well, even the hardware survive for how many years I'm sure there will be another new developed wallet will release in this coming years that much secured than hardware wallet.
The only important here in crypto is that always keep your seed secret and safe.