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No, you want the most effective tools, and you keep as many tools as you need to be as effective as you can in as many things as you can.

Hardware tools aren't the best by a long shot. As others have mentioned, people use different hardware. You have to bribe the manufacturers to do so - and for them it's a matter of once it's known they let the NSA or whoever doctor their stuff that's it, game over. And of course, many hardware manufacturers work for other governments. Hardware can't be changed (short of firmware updates, and how often do users do that?), so you can't update it once people (even ISP's) start taking action to block your tools.

Software, on the other hand, has at least some room to change should the need arise.

That's why a good garage keeps a lot of tools.

A good garage keeps only the tools they need, and maybe a few spares. A garage that has "a lot of tools" is trying to win your custom by being showy, not by the quality of their work. Have a look around people's garages. See that big case of snap-on tools or other namebrand? The really expensive one that's got all the shiny tools that look like they've never been touched? The owner struggles to change a spark plug in a lawnmower, and unlikely the tools have even been used for that much. Now look at the guy who has a quality (maybe) but very well used socket set and a cheap-midrange set of spanners. Notice that they're not in an expensive case with lovingly-made hand-crafted padded housing for each individual tool, but put into a often sturdy but very well used toolbox, that maybe was their dad's.

The shinier and fancier the tools the less they get used, and the less is known about their use. Except for new replacements when that spanner you've had since you worked on your first engine in your teens which got lost when the !#$^@$ wife let your !@#%^$! former mate borrow it the other day!