You’d hate our team—we force push to master (not just feature branches) all the time. It seems like anarchy at first but it’s not really that hard to deal with. Our situation is a bit unique though, and I doubt it would scale well beyond a small team.
Yes, that sounds like you are trying to maximize footguns to me. I do hope for your sake that no one manages to trigger one. (…and I'm personally very glad at this point with GitHub supporting branch restrictions and the ability to disable force pushes for master.)
