Originally Posted by
MoAlpha
... we may conclude that there is no part of a bicycle, including such innocent-seeming structures as levers and baby bolts, which cannot cause grievous harm to the rider or nearby people and objects in the event of a crash.
^ This.
Wouldn't dissuade me from a given product, unless the product itself showed a solid propensity to injure or fail.
As you say, most any part of a bike and one's gear can be involved in injury, in the event of a crash. All it takes is falling hard enough, or Murphy watching.
BTDT, on a handful of occasions over the decades, with other parts of the bike, with the ground, with tree branches, with the old elongated "tail fins" from 1950s/1960s GM cars, etc.