I think that's the good part of this forum. Being able to have different opinions.
I am also a dissenter (my view: There is so much HBSAg, empty spheres, RNA-packed spheres and traditional DNA-packed HBV viruses. If the immune system is meant to single out infected cells and destroy them and the number of these gazillion particles has to be brought down. I am not sure if I read about this or phantasize here, but would extra-cellular HBsAg be an antibody sink?, preventing them to reach infected cells [if HBsAg is presented on MHC-I there])*
* from my answer you can deduce that I have no position in a HCB-focused stock at the moment