Ah-ha, I might have mixed up with the screw "stripping" with cam-out but repeatedly cam-out is definitely the main reason to create a stripped screw. Evidently,

Ah-ha, I might have mixed up with the screw "stripping" with cam-out but repeatedly cam-out is definitely the main reason to create a stripped screw. Evidently, the cam-out nature of the Philips screw is by design[1] to enable torque-limited application to prevent over-tightening, so it's a feature not a defect! [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cam_out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cam_out