BB
I respect and enjoy BPFs posts immensely as well as his depth of knowledge and fully understand where he is coming from regarding pilot induced failures.
Mechanically induced failures DO happen! Whether they are partial which give you time to get to an airport or at least reduce your descent rate in a forced landing it is again about choices.
Engine goes BANG you have no choices you are going down and will concentrate your full attention to the fact that you will arrive on terra firma in one fashion or another within a few minutes.
Your skills and an element of luck or lack of it will determine on how you arrive.
A partial failure? It could lead to a safe landing on an airport? It could actually put you in a worse situation than a full failure ie it could fully fail at a much lower altitude than you hoped for or in a worse place than you hoped for.
This thing about more options giving you more choices and more choices giving you the choice to choose the wrong option 