My question to the general public / people that have posted: why do you care? Unless you’re racing a stage race or classic or grand fondo or crit where swapping a wheel MAY matter, why the fuck does anyone care about the extra two seconds to navigate the lawyer tabs? Are saying the hassle of a very small change in routing of how you mount a wheel, worth a couple of seconds at best, is a showstopper in terms of getting your ride in (that includes adjusting brakes). I just don’t get it. BTW, I’ve got two bikes with, two bikes without.
Clearly you missed the point of my post. I’m arguing that the additional adjustment required to mount a wheel on a fork with lawyer lips may increase, not decrease, the risk of a mishap. Bike owners who are not knowledgeable or attentive enough to mount a wheel to an old-school fork without lips are, I would guess, more likely to improperly secure a wheel on fork with lips because it is a more complex task. The irony is that, by attempting to make things safer, lawyer lips may have made things more dangerous.
The time it takes has nothing to do with my original post.