I actually had a problem near this step and was on 2.1 for an hour or two while I figured it out (rebooted multiple times while trying to fix it but that's ok).
First under the next section, installing arm9loaderhax, when you reinsert your sd card you need to wait until the system recognizes the card for the first time and configures it for use with your 3ds - I was just inserting it and opening the browser without realizing I needed to wait a bit for the confirmation message to pop up. This was causing the website loaded on the next step not return somem sort of error (soultion seems obvious now but it wouldn't hurt if a line was added to the guide mentioning that).
Also while still on 2.1 after finally getting the website mentioned to recognize and load the files on the card I now just saw a black screen after it loaded, eventually I somehow realized it was loaded despite the back screen and just pushed select. The guide gives instructions for what to do if you get a glitched screen but I didn't consider completely black to be glitched.
Anyway my point is the only part of the guide I had any problem with at all was what seems like the riskiest part. I do understand the hesitation to put a device in a state where just closing the lid is an irrecoverable brick no matter how much you trust yourself not to it; I think its kind of like sitting on the ledge of a tall building- the fear doesn't come from thinking you're suddenly going to fail at sitting but that the only thing separating life and death is a small push.
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