I think you're misinterpreting hangar talk for aviation safety advice. The "dentist crashing his expensive plane" has been a trope in the aviation community for

I think you're misinterpreting hangar talk for aviation safety advice. The "dentist crashing his expensive plane" has been a trope in the aviation community for a long, long time. (Perhaps at some point it matched up with the stats? I don't know) By now, it's apocryphal, the point being that focusing on the gear or the money involved instead of actually managing risk is a good way to get killed. I used to read the safety stats a lot. One of my favorites was "running out of gas". It always amazed me how many really good pilots and really good airplanes ended up in a bad way because of simply running out of gas.