I’ve read up on paper cartridges a little bit. Have several “kits” and even two Civil War era reproductions of Colts bullets. Union civil war troopers were supplied with paper cartridges manufactured in the north by the 100’s of thousands, by young boys and girls in factories. Supplied in 6 cartridges paper wrapped boxes that also contained the caps plus an extra. That would indicate that the revolvers were intended to be reloaded on the battle field. If one could, during battle, reload a musket surely one could reload a revolver.
I dabbled with paper cartridges making several hundred until the tedium of doing so out weighed the advantages. I can attest to the fact that a properly made paper cartridge makes reloading a very simple process with the only fiddly part being capping.