Your being anthropomorphic, assuming what an animal feels based on how you would feel. And rationalizing to support your opinion.
I ask for real results, not ideas on why something may or may not work. I ask this because, I have raised literally hundreds upon hundreds of Cal kings and Handling them right out of the egg was indeed the best way to get them familiar with me, their keeper. I was known for having kings grow super fast, healthy and great producers and handling never hindered that.
Two points to question, is the animal healthy and is the keeper holding the animal in a proper way.
I have no problems holding reptiles, I have good hands, sadly some folks have hands of stone. Those folks should not handle snakes at all, until they learn how.
If I may, taming a captive Kingsnake is pretty darn easy, Lets say, level one. The reason they are so popular is for that very reason. Easy to tame, curious, do not dive for cover the second they see you. And commonly will seek you out for reward. I enjoy and practice taming wild snakes that are known to be extremely nervous. That's a challenge, if I make a mistake, they simply do not come back. Have pics Oh and mistakes have to be large ones, even wild free roaming snakes are fairly tolerant.
The reason I challenged your advice is this, you offered nothing concrete to support what you recommended.

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