My assumption was that the original comment was about professional athletes. For them any delay to returning is generally considered disastrous, and reconstruct

My assumption was that the original comment was about professional athletes. For them any delay to returning is generally considered disastrous, and reconstruction success rates for them are near 100%, their recovery timelines are extremely quick, and doing PT all day isn’t really that different from what they normally do. Recovered performance is also incredibly good these days in most cases. This conservative approach could become the default for most everyone else, but for professional athletes 90% success is not going to fly. If the original comment was about casual athletes then none of this applies.