I am type 1.5 and disagree with both parts of your post. While learning to use them routinely only takes a few days, needles and lancets do bother people for anxiety reasons, but also for physiological reasons. Lancet areas develop callouses, can have blood flow issues and in more advanced stages of diabetics can risk infections/damage. Injection sites go bad over time or appear to; right now I am dealing with an issue where I think some of my preferred injection sites are becoming less effective, but I can’t really tell, which is preoccupying. I don’t think research into alleviating the need to use needles and lancets is getting anything wrong just because it solves a need not every diabetic has.

Secondly, I think your description of diabetes is overblown. If you’re checking BGL frequently with a CGM, then you have a good understanding of what will happen in routine situations. If you’re not, you aren’t going to sweat 30 minutes in the car or the delta between the carbs from dinner plus toast and physical activity (I do like the humble-brag here, though!) because you don’t know what’s going on anyway. Hypoglycemia has the advantage of being treated with glucose tablets, which don’t spoil and can be stashed everywhere. Moderate activity and water intake are important but not going to swing your BGL wildly like a bottle of soda or an intense workout.

This disease can be a hypochondriac’s dream and I think that teaching other diabetics to be so preoccupied is dangerous to them because it increases the temptation to give up on the daily routines that actually make a difference.