Most grooming routines are built around the visible stuff: beard, hair, skin. Nose and ear hair rarely make the list, right up until someone notices, and by then it's usually already been noticed for a while.
The reason it gets skipped isn't laziness, it's that most guys don't own a tool built for the job. Regular scissors are risky at that range, and plucking is genuinely painful and can trigger ingrown hairs in a spot you really don't want them. A dedicated trimmer solves both problems: rounded, skin-safe tips that can't nick delicate tissue, and a motor built for the tight curves of a nostril or ear canal rather than the flat surfaces a beard trimmer is designed for.
This is also one of the lowest-effort additions to a grooming routine that actually changes how put-together someone looks. Unlike a haircut or a beard trim, nobody consciously registers “good nose hair trimming,” they just register the absence of the alternative. It's maintenance work, not a style statement, which is exactly why it's easy to forget and exactly why it's worth building into a weekly routine rather than an occasional emergency fix in the mirror before a meeting.
The tools that do this well share a few features: a rounded safety tip, a motor quiet and gentle enough to use comfortably at close range, and a design that works for both nostril and ear hair rather than requiring two separate devices. Once it's part of the rotation, it takes under a minute, and it's the kind of maintenance that pays off precisely because nobody notices it's being done.