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Even when risks of something are real, then less than 1% risk per year is not something that truly terrify rational people. That is basically a risk of living. I mean, utterly unaging humans would often die before the age of 600 out of accidents. Driving to the grocery store is a (low) risk to life.

Is that a satire of people that constantly asks about tsunami risk (that is a risk only for coasts, literally not at all at the open sea)? XD

That is pretty much more elegant and refined version of the solution used around Thailand (before the Thai navy destroyed the prototype). Much more futuristic, but the same basic promise I think? To use a comparision, it's like a shitty soviet car from 1970' and a modern Mercedes, but both...

This is why seasteading is not about boats. Like I said before, ships are not taken seriously by the seasteading movement for good reasons, so I cannot understand need to dispute things with this strawman. If you want to see what is really experimented with, look at the Ocean Builders project...

Considered 1001 times by the seasteading community, maintenance costs are enormous and make that unviable.

There was a failed (extremely small-scale) seasteading experiment around Thailand: https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/04/18/this-is-why-the-thai-navy-busted-a-seasteading-american/ (They currently try again inside of territorial waters of Panama and under laws of Panama)