Yes, once you take off the long trap, you will be committed to wearing for awhile unless you think it is easy to attach the long strap. I'll try to share some pictures of the long strap removed.It sounds like a poor design decision to not make it easy to take on and off. It makes it difficult to carry it by the short handle and then switch to long strap when you need to be hands free. Whereas I can imagine that most people who remove the short handle will just leave it off permanently.