I use LOTW because my logging software of choice, Wavelog, can automate most of the process. The only headache is the initial certification, and the process I had to go through to request a new one after accidentally wiping the previous one. I thankfully never have to touch TSQL to submit my QSOs.

I sort of understand the other ham’s opinion that “doing it for the other station” might provide motivation to submit logs to a service you don’t personally use, but that’s less true when the service in question is as poorly implemented as LOTW.

QRZ, while it has some drawbacks, does a great job as an online QSO book. It supports 2FA to secure your account, but requires no extra software or presents barriers to prevent you from adding records to your own logbook once signed in. It also offers a fairly simple API for use with 3rd party software. It can match within its own logs, and will also honor matches imported from LOTW, making it my central “source of truth” for QSL-based awards.

LOTW is a hacky solution in search of a question. Despite its GPG-esque security, it does nothing to prove that a contact actually occurred and I could just as easily submit false records to LOTW as I could any other logbook.