Its not about needing Hekate or not. Without a dedicated tool for formatting and creating emuMMC, people messed up and either launched sysMMC without knowing it, ended up on a black screen, ran into an error code, etc. And I will mention for the last time you have not answered my question and faster or slower driving routes. If you do not answer from this point on, I will assume you concede that the faster route is always preferred making Hekate objectively superior regardless of your subjective opinion.
For point 1, if people followed the guide properly, they wouldn't come to that issue. As I mentioned, they would use Minitool to partition it, then hekate to copy the emuMMC file. If they couldn't do that, that is clearly on them. My original point was, in the end, everyone used hekate to create the emuMMC OS (after the partition has already been created), which means everyone will have an emummc.ini file to work with.
For the faster or slower driving issue, there are issues that you do not take into account. For example, the highway is a couple minutes faster, but it is more mileage, and thus, a majority of people will stick to the local road. This is exactly the same as you are trying to make it seem that the boot difference is a huge deal. The difference is so minute that a majority of people won't care about it. And, here, once again, you are making it seem hekate and fss0 are one in the same though what we are discussing (bootloaders from hekate), they clearly aren't.
The difference here is there is no objective payoff as opposed to a shorter boot time.I also listed reasons that updating patches too quickly can be negative. In addition to what I stated earlier, not everyone will be aware of a new set of patches whenever they are released. By the time most people realize a new set of patches is required, both will readily be available.
A shorter boot time that is so minuscule (supposedly 30 seconds, though in my tests, has been 5 seconds) that a majority of people won't care about it. I defer to the faster or slower driving issue that I mentioned above since you wanted me to answer that question. Your reasoning for "updating patches too quickly being bad" is an issue with updating to the latest firmware/CFW, not to updating to the latest patches...
As for people who are not aware of a new set of patches being released, most will find out within a day or the firmware dropping, and sometimes, the other one might not be updated by then. It's as simple as that.