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My dad was a carpenter and cabinet maker for most of his life. Even in retirement he spends most of his time restoring antique wood furniture. In all of that time he has never cut himself with the tablesaw. He has had the table saw kick lumber back at him. He has cut himself with other saws. But the tablesaw is probably one of the least dangerous saws a woodworker works with outside of unpowered hand saws. By forcing saw stop you are jacking up the prices of even cheap tablesaws several times over and forcing more people to use the far more dangerous alternative which is a handheld circular saw.
This is objectively incorrect, unfortunately. It's an anecdotal study with an n of 1. Whenever they check the numbers on this, table saws are responsible for like 40% of power tool related accidents. They've recently done studies that also show experience and training also don't correlate to less injuries, complacency negates that for enough time to get injured.
The only thing that reduces injury are mechanical or physical additions to the devices.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258951412300021X