More risk in my opinion.
Still have to downgrade to 9.2 ( Can still soft brick, forcing you to update to 11.0.xx )
There have been reports of people not getting the option to backup sysnand and automatically downgrading them to 2.1 leaving them with few options to get back to 9.2 or whatever.
New method comes with an even bigger warning label.
I haven't read the guide in a week or so since it changed over, some things may have changed, not sure. But the same risk if not more is still present.
This is just my opinion. I'll always say hardmod first, just as a safety precaution. It's the ultimate fail safe.