[SpaceOsc]

Don't lose sight of the spirit of the rule, its to avoid purposeful drooping of parts and separation of robots from subsystem designed to provide advantages. if a match changes based on accidental or purposeful change in the terrain of the game field and you lose due to it, it would make sense why there a rule to ensure teams do all they can to not drop parts.

its meant as deterrence rather than punishment.

I wouldn't mind dropping a banana peal or throwing a red turtle shell at other robots, but that's the rules!