There's no arguing the scope is crap, it's a Heathkit, but just because it's useless for your line of work doesn't mean it's useless to everyone. There are several youtubers who show how to use these types of un-triggered scopes, you just have to know how to fiddle. If you are an inexperienced fiddler who is spoiled by auto-triggering, well tough bananas.
I've personally diagnosed an odd distorting transistor with a bad junction in an old Hi-Fi set with a vacuum tube sig-gen and a manual trigger tube scope.
Just because you have lost touch with the McGyvver ways of using the bare minimum tools to diagnose a problem, doesn't mean it's impossible.
Not saying anyone should ever use this as a main scope, but yes, it is possible to teach someone how to use a scope with a tube un-triggered scope. It is even possible to use it for audio work,
you don't need a triggered scope for basic audio. P.S. You said a BEM 003? You do realize that there really isn't much difference in actual functionality other than that seems to have auto-trigger and maybe a few more tubes.
Sure, it's higher quality, but to a beginner, that probably doesn't matter, it'll last them until they get a new one.