>>11333855To be even fairer, the amount of crush damage is irrelevant if you are cutting far enough away from the part.
But if you want to cut close to the part as one would with high-end nippers (to save time on knifing/sanding), then the amount of plastic stress ST-A produces is not really desirable.
So if you can't cut close to the part anyway, you don't really need a clean cut of single-bladed nipper, do you?