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[Breaking Bad] Did Hank's personal connection to Walt help or hurt his investigation?

So I was thinking about it and on the one hand, the guy is right under his nose, which puts him close to the situation, but on the other Walt is always screwing him up.  Would Hank have even had this officer's intuition thing/hard-on for the case if he weren't right there with Walt?

I mean, from our point of view, Hank is a total bad-ass.  But obviously, he is somewhat disgraced in the DEA after the fact.  So which one is actually true?
gpt
Hurt. For sure. If Hank hadn't known Walt, if Walt was just some science teacher, Hank would have suspected him the minute those lab supplies went missing at the very beginning. But because Hank knew Walt, and believed him to be a mild-mannered, unassuming individual, Hank didn't think for a minute that Walt was the criminal he'd eventually become.

I think after it was all said and done, there was enough evidence to show that Hank tried his damnedest to catch the criminal mastermind that was Walter "Heisenberg" White, and he would be remembered as a hero.