I'm sure this is fine, but in general I'd want to be sure that anything touching the wallet.dat is safe. Keeping a liquid store of value on one's pc opens it up

I'm sure this is fine, but in general I'd want to be sure that anything touching the wallet.dat is safe. Keeping a liquid store of value on one's pc opens it up to new malicious apps knowing exactly what to target. A major client-side security breach would look really bad for bitcoin.