Have you seen the fees Ark charges just to hold your own money?

I've used both Ark implementations and they didn't charge me anything to refresh during the final 3 days of my VTXO expiry.

and we all know trusted third parties are security holes.

Ark providers aren't trusted with security.

They are just trying to warn folks of the tradeoffs and stop this nonsense as it is a scaling solution for Bitcoin.

Can you cite an example of them carefully explaining Ark's tradeoffs? I've only seen them assert that Ark is a scam without any proof whatsoever.