Why do people always say that stall is "easy"? I ladder around 1400-1500 in Ubers and OU, and I can say from experience that stall is by far the hardest playstyle.

I really can't tell if people are just saying it's easy because they're buttblasted about losing to it, or they really just don't have experience.

Let's take standard Deo-S HO for example. I often hear people say that " If you mess up in HO, you lose. You can mess up in stall and still win". The thing to understand is that making one fuck-up while using stall has the same effects as a fuck-up in HO, it's just that the game itself takes longer, leading to the illusion that you can mess up without being punished.

What's your opinion on the matter? This isn't a thread on Smogon/bans or anything, this is just about the illusion that stall is easy to play.