Do you REALLY think that no one has yet hoarded film for 5 to 10 years yet? That there's no current wisdom on this?
Your assumption is obviously false and your conclusion is, of course also false - not to mention absurd. (what was the goal?)
There are many wise people here on APUG. A few of them have even shared their wisdom on this matter right here in this thread. Let's take polyglot as an example....
Buy it, put it in sealed bags, write the purchase date on the bag, put it in the bottom of the freezer. Done.
Yeah, your stock will eventually run out and you'll eventually need to learn to use a new film, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't keep using your favourite film for another decade, if that's the film that you understand and know you work well with. The only caveat I'd put is "don't buy more than you can use before it starts to degrade", unless of course you intend to sell it at a profit in 3 years time.
and he's also, apparently accumulated some experience storing films in the freezer....so, there is some sound advice from a knowlegeable person.
Several others also shared their wisdom. If I may paraphrase,
"buy no more than you think you'll use in two years",
"don't bother to hoarde, just buy and use - live in the present" and finally,
"learn to adapt to change". Notice that was also part of the advice offered by polyglot above. The ability to adapt to change is and always has been necessary for photographers. If you do not, you will wither and die as a photogrpher (metaphorically speaking of course).
My own personal experience, and I have considerable experience using film stored well beyond the date printed on the box, is that the fridge is better than the freezer and for robust films like Tri-X, "a cool dry place" is probably not too bad either...As a specific example, I acquired some thirty rolls of Tri-X in 2003. The dates on the boxes ranged from 1973 to 1996. It had been stored in a dresser drawer and in a box in the closet. It was not stored in the freezer, nor was it ever in the fridge. In fact, the house was not even air conditioned and so, it was subjected to conditions that were not what anybody would call "cool". I used every roll...rated them all at EI200 and processed in HC-100 (1+39). All were plenty good enough. There was considerable fog in some and almost none in others but, no emulsion defects. That's 30 year old film that was just laying around the house.
I have also mistakenly purchased film that was stored for an undisclosed time in a freezer. None of it was more than five years beyond date. Some of the color film was fine some was far from fine. Mostly, the color film did not fare well. The B&W was no better and no worse than those twenty and thirty year old rolls of casually stored Tri-X. All of it smelled of freezer burn. My conclusion, the freezer is overkill at best, adds complexity to usage and can have some unpleasant side effects.
Thus, I normally store film in the fridge. It is the environment that most closely conforms to manufacturers' recommendations What's more, film suffers no nasty side effects in the fridge. In my expereience, the fridge at about 50~60 degrees F is good. Perhaps, optimal. There are several reasons for this. Chief among them being the manufacturers' own instructions..."store in a cool dry place"...notice they, none of them say anything about freezing. Kodak used to call out temperature ranges, maybe they still do. Those ranges did not extend below 50 degrees F. Stores that cater to professional photographers (used to) keep film in a refrigerator - not a freezer. At least one that I know of still does. I also notice that they only store the color film in the fridge. All the B&W is out on shelves at a comfortable, climate controlled ambient temperature.
Ultimately, you'll do what you want. That much seems plainly obvious. Perhaps, you'll collect some evidence from which you may form your own opinions.
and finally as a sort of post script, I'll observe that....
There is also much idiocy on the internet...people exhibiting herd behaviour...not thinking just taking what they read on the internet to the next level...eventually, it gets to the absurd. To wit: Just last weekend I was reading a post from somebody who had taken the "store the film in the freezer" thing to the extreme. Apparently, he would wind the partially exposed roll of film back into the canister, remove film from the camera and store the partially exposed roll of fim in the freezer....repeatedly cycling the film from freezer to camera and back several times in the course of exposing the roll. This is the absurd behaviour that comes from extrapolating the model well beyond the observed data. People think if a little is good more is better and even more is The Best. It gets absurd.
So, the fact that a bunch of people post on the internet that they do X, does not mean that doing X is good nor that doing X+1 is better - even though it might seem logical that X is a good idea...so, again, do what you want. Beware of becoming absurd or obsolete.
