Dude you need to let it go & move on, you’re not living in a universe where you can ever be right about this (or anything else)
, but I get what you’re saying. First time I went off road I had no bump stops (truth is I never heard the term much less knew what they were) & learned the hard way why I needed them, got my tire up into the wheel well but that wasn’t the problem, the tire grabbed my lower hanging fruit flare and pulled it outwards laterally & as a result it pulled the 90 degree angle of my outer fender straight out. Had the flare not been there I can’t say for sure no harm would’ve occurred anyway, but I could hear that distinctive tire on flare sound as it pulled and there was no evidence of tire on sheet metal, it pulled it out away from center and all the flare bolts were all exposed by about an inch & the plastic was stressed so it was obvious what had occurred. Given that, it was also obvious that in the absence of those flares there’s a good chance no damage would’ve occurred, at least in that instance, but if not then another time for sure as I was sitting on a time-bomb I just didn’t know it. Given all that I agree with your point, you’ve reduced the opportunity for damage occurring in a certain way, but you haven’t eliminated it.