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> surprisingly after many years people have learnt recently that with Ledger, it has always been the case the seed phrase can be extracted via a firmware and transmitted over internet
This is incorrect. All hardware wallets store your seed — that is how they sign transactions.
Ledger is adding the ability for the seed to be shared and shared with its partners if you opt into their paid service.
It is not true that that „has always been the case“
Sure, Trezor can add the same feature if they want. But that feature is not in the firmware now (and we know that because it’s open source) and it is highly unlikely that they will ever add it.