I'm going to have to disagree with you on this
@slonstdy. You have arbitrarily drawn your black and white line at using/not using the one stick method. If we follow your logic and you go back on step like
@kyler1945 pointed out. There is risk in climbing trees, so lets not try to find the safest method to climb a tree, lets sit on a bucket. Go back one more step, it's risky to drive a car, lets not make cars safer, lets walk to our hunting grounds. There's more risk in hunting than not, so lets not have hunter safety courses lets just not hunt.
I personally don't one stick for several different reasons but, if I did I would want to do it the safest way possible that still allowed me to accomplish my goals and enjoy my time in the woods. I also think these threads are important because I believe that most hunters, including the ones that one stick, don't truly understand how much force can be generated on very short falls.