Agreed, for some cases. My very fine '74 Gitane Gypsy Sport had some odd purple paint that was still soft. Stripper was a messy fail so I scrapped most of it off. Not hard at all. I've also had good luck making scrapers out of steel banding material, like what secures pallets of lumber or bricks or pipe. Higher carbon steel than normal and holds an edge fairly well. You can sharpen it with a file and easily vary how sharp it is. I've not tried rolling an edge on it yet. No need.

I'll guess that scraping may not work well on some paints though. Can't hoit to try, eh?