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> Dangerous is probably overstating the issue a bit ...

AFAIK the "danger" is that someone boots the machine with an
installer for some other OS, and that installer treats the
disk as unformatted -- hence "obviously" containing nothing
important -- because it doesn't have a recognizable MBR.