You made some very good points there.
And there is another positive aspect:
No need to store lots of equipment!
Just consider how much space all the spare supers take up while they are not in use. Then there's the extractor and the straining gear as well.
I somebody only wants a couple of hives in the corner of their small garden and is happy with comb honey chopped up and pushed into a jar, then the TBH is not a bad option.
The important thing is that TBH beginners get support from their local association though and learn how they can avoid cross comb, swarming and varroa. It doesn't help if they are disregarded as fanciful idealists, they have every right o be taken seriously.
I would even say that with a TBH you might be able to get a better understanding of the natural working of a colony than in the usual square boxes.
One item I find very useful in my TBH is a divider board with openings that fit a porter bee escape. It allows me to block off the empty space at the back during the winter, and it also makes it very simple to divide a colony or even have two nucs in one box, with a separate entrance at each end.
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