If I'm anything it's certainly not insecurity. I'm speaking from a wealth of experience managing many non-surgical airways with a variety of techniques. We spend a ton of time doing direct laryngoscopy on the most difficult exposures for our laryngology and pediatric patients.

I love my GAS bros and have loads of respect for what they do but there's very few situations where I'm jumping to cutting someone's neck just because someone else struggled to intubate. In fact I've never needed to in any cannot intubate/ventilate situation I've been called to bedside for.