SapInMyBlood
When I was deciding whether to do tubeless in my two main bikes I looked for stories of failures. Nearly all of them had to do with tire tears too big to plug, and rim damage. I figured that's the kind of thing that happens years apart for aggro downhill riders, and seldom since they started doing tire liners; and for single track, gravel and commuters maybe never. Two of them in one ride and then cracking a valve to boot, which I've never heard of before, is a real bummer!
On all my next tire changes my bikes are getting cush cores or airliners. For the gravel bike it's stories like yours and for the mtb it's so I can run the pressure down into the tweens and put off buying a full squish a little longer.