I guess with hard lenses you don't have to worry about them folding up like my ultra thin dailies do
Nope. You fold them, they break. I once broke a lens in two because it got stuck under my nail while cleaning them.
I tried day lenses once - the thin soft fluffy kind. Could not get them in or out. There must be a knack to it but I didn't discover it. Not having a separate bottle of fluid, but having to make do with the fluid that came in the little individual packages didn't help.