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bobI don't think that anything that encourages using BB cards as an investment strategy is good and certainly not great. That rules out 1 and 2.
I certainly don't think it's evil. That rules out 5. I think the only thing that approaches evil in the hobby is outright theft or maybe cutting up Babe Ruth's bat into itty bitty pieces.
I guess I'll say 4 altough maybe if I was Bill Gates and had bajillions of cash I'd have a 33 Goudey set in PSA8/9 and then I'd say 3. As it is I do have a 33 Goudey set (and love it!) but I think it would cost much more to encapsulate 95% of my cards than it did to buy them.