[the__alchemist]

I can relate to this perspective! It's important to step out of the system and recognize priorities like this; balancing risk and reward.

I think, in this particular case, perhaps the risk is not as high as you state? You could imagine a scenario where these connectors could lead to a fire, but I think this is probably a low risk compared to operation of other high-power household appliances.

Bad connector design that's easy to over-current? Yes. Notable house-fire risk? Probably not.