Is there a point where "you GOTTA have irons on a rifle." just becomes autism? I get having backup irons if I have a red dot and can just slide the irons in without them interfering with anything else, but if I've got an ACOG, especially on a non-QD mount, all the irons options are either intrusive or kinda shitty.

It's weird to me seeing people concoct outlier scenerios about my primary optic getting destroyed and forcing me to backup irons, yet they never concoct those same scenerios for people simply running irons. There's never "What happens if your primary irons get mangled huh? Thats why you need backup irons!" even though an ACOG is more resilient to being dropped or wacked than a lot of folding irons.