Taking twice as long to check out is not what I would call more convenient.
Yeah, I'm seeing that. It's taking a good 15-25 seconds of holding the chip to the reader. Meanwhile my entire card number is exposed to those in line for the entire time.
I was somewhat glad to see Chips but once I saw that they wouldn't require a pin I was amazed. Why go through all the overhaul if your still going to leave the door wide open and people can steal/find your card and use it.
IDK I don't see the point, I have 2 chip and pin cards but they are secondary not primary authentication so I only put in a pin if I'm traveling in Europe at an unmanned terminal. It would be nice to allow the cardholders to choose if they require a pin to be entered every time.