But that won't stop your workpiece from flying into your eyeball/jaw/neck/chest, or you from inhaling fine particles. Safety features are nice, but aren't a replacement for knowing how to use the tool safely.

And that's just safety. Knowing how to use the tool properly means using a featherboard, or not using both the miter gauge and fence, using a crosscut sled, and other things which ensure your piece won't be marred or jammed or bind or cut incorrectly. Proper use also leads to increased efficiency and less waste.

Same things apply to K8s. Even if you buy some managed product or safety feature, you still need to know how to use it right after that point, or your work will end up shoddy.

"Safety features are nice, but aren't a replacement for knowing how to use the tool safely."

In many cases, safety features in languages do indeed remove the need to understand a dangerous tool. For instance, if your language doesn't have pointer arithmetic, you don't need to know how to use pointer arithmetic safely.

> eyeball

The rest of your points stand (though I suspect a saw particle colliding with your jaw is unlikely to cause damage as severe as cutting off your finger), but any responsible person will be wearing safety goggles when operating a table saw.

I have never used a table saw before, but from my amateur youtube understanding, safety goggles aren't perfect protection against kickback, right?

Like, if I've got a chunk of wood being hurled at my face at high speeds, I'm definitely going to prefer to be wearing safety goggles, but I can still imagine the wood coming in at an angle and knocking them away, or being hit with enough force to break the goggles.

You're unlikely to get hit by larger pieces of wood at high speed. Dust, small chunks, maybe a part of the saw may come flying at you, but i suspect they're way more likely than large wood chunks. But if you believe this photo was not staged, then safety goggles are pretty good https://external-preview.redd.it/qVMDLhaXQN8Vd9UI6d5fDswF396...