yes, but we're talking about couple of 20 lb bicycles here, not a pop-up camper, in which case I would agree with you one hundred percent in your assessment, but a couple of bikes is nothing to get excited about.
the reason I'm still alive is because of experience, I know where to put my face and where not to put my face when you're doing sketchy things like that. we put 8 ft pipe cheater bars on pipe wrenches and push on them with payloaders, we bend and break plenty of stuff so we know the breaking points. I've seen chains and tow ropes snap and smash the shit out of the vehicle are attached to, some people get so stuck they rip parts off trying to pull it out.
City people will never understand, you have to grow up on a farm 60 miles from anywhere to understand that you got to get it done and do it yourself no matter what cuz you can't wait two hours for someone to show up and charge you a thousand bucks or more to do something you can do yourself for nearly free.
Don't be afraid of being ingenuitive, you just have to be smart about it. The correct proper way that's listed in the manual isn't always practical or possible. I understand being a dealer mechanic that is probably pretty ingrained in your training and the fact that its not your money when you're fixing stuff so you don't care how much it costs to do it by the book, however those are mere guidelines to farmers and construction guys, lol! You need to understand people like me have 20-30 different vehicles\machines though, you simply can't afford to fix them all properly every time and the more experience you have the easier you can figure out which things are important to fix properly and which things are not important.
