This article reads like a FUD hit piece on playground structures written by someone who never had a childhood outside of the house or grew up with an overprotective entourage. I was in glee to see a lot of old constructions that were used by normal human children back then to 'have fun as kids do', but accompanied by a brutal paragraph of worst-case-scenarios of horrors that rarely panned out in everyday life.
Pretty much. The earlier understanding of and managing risk is more practical than a making a world that's absolutely safe in a small area that's unrealistic compared to the rest of it.