Generally agreed, but one should beware that even killing a process can still be quite destabilizing if that process was messing about with, say, shared memory.

Generally agreed, but one should beware that even killing a process can still be quite destabilizing if that process was messing about with, say, shared memory. Still, at least those "dangerous situations" are a bit more obvious/explicit when we're talking about processes rather than threads where everything is shared by default.