It was the specific wording you used. You will "need to" install cfw. It fairly strongly implies it is the only option or a required action.
That being said purely user land home brew has become quite deprecated lately; however it is still a strong option for the extremely basic use case of booting an out of region game.
They are both good options in this case.
It's NOT a strong option when you consider everything I just told you....Why would I offer him something that he can't use easily? There are no primary exploits available on his firmware
free or cheap; when compared to a compatible flashcard. Even if he decided to buy one of the games, he would need to create an emunand and update that to be able to go online.
Then if he decides to install other stuff later (I highly doubt he's using his console for ONE game, out of region or not) he'll probably wonder why he has to unwrap them all the time.
Then he'll come back asking the difference between EmuNAND and sysnand, and realize he needs to format one of them after installing tons of stuff.
Then he'll think he's going to lose all his data...
Then he'll wonder about his saves
Then he'll keep getting a red screen in HomeBrew because the payloads are buggy...
Then he may update in sysnand while not realizing it and lose his hax he just paid for.
Do you see where I'm going with this? Userland HomeBrew is more complicated to maintain than CFW, and as of right now it's a lot harder to access as well, with a hell of a lot less reward and stability. I don't understand how this isn't common sense to most people. Yes, HomeBrew will do what he wants but there is an easier and simpler solution with less drawbacks.
I mean damn, with the R4i B9S he can literally pay less than $20, wait a week and install HaX by popping in a card and pressing a button.........