If you’re quiet, noone hacks you. Use this platform for the purpose it serves. A couple of the reasons why noone hacks you:
- It takes time
- Your openvpn IP is dynamic, plus it’s not easy to reveal your address unless you want someone to.
Of course, simply using a virtual machine would be much simpler than just stopping all exploitable services running on your machine (mysql, apache, nginx). A hacker that can get your system through HTB network might also be skilled enough to do the same through VM. But we are talking about personal computers and laptops - anyways, who’d like their system to be hacked?
Being wise is what really matters here, not how secure the platform is.