That is simply not true. Once fully seated, people have been able to pull it out enough to be dangerous. That same thing can happen just due to vibration, moving the case, working in the case, etc. In other words, normal behavior.
The latch is there exactly to prevent this, but it clearly doesn't (always), which is a design flaw, not user error.
Latched cables inside a PC don't work themselves loose. That's just nonsense.
And a good design has multiple failsafes, which they are now implementing with the shorter sense pins.
Hindsight is 20:20. No one was complaining about sense pins length when they debuted in the 3090 Ti, or the lack of them when the previous 12 pin in the rest of the 3000 series.
But again, all the new sense pins do is guard against poorly seated cables. If you take care to make sure your cable is properly seated, you are as safe as having the sense pins.
Except that what you are saying is a falsehood, as GN put out their video in 2022, and there have been plenty of cases in 2023, like:
(deleting your links to make post readable).
Those links mostly seem to be an issue with those odd Cablemod block adapters, which cablemod admitted are problematic. IIRC it's also Cablemod that was responsible for dump of accumulated cards at the the repair channel that spawned this supposed resurgence in this problem...
Frankly, it's utterly ridiculous to even think that more than a fraction of 4090 owners have seen the GN video.
They wouldn't need to see the video, but since the video it's been widely communicated across the internet, that plugging it in properly is VERY important. But naturally some people would be unaware so it wouldn't completely eliminate the problem, but has drastically reduced it. If not awareness what do you think cause the reduction?