The fewer random “fuck-yous,” the better, I feel. Item destruction was a tedious gamble, while corrosion was way to unbalanced a threat. Infiniplex’s assertion that these things were something that could be learned to counter is both wrong (the only counters were hoping for maxwell’s, preservation, specific amulets, or randarts, or dropping all your stuff in case of bad luck,) and misguided (since neither was actually fully counter-able.)

More short term danger is always nice, even if it technically comes at a price of reducing long-term stability (by way of lost consumables or armor in excess of what the RNG doles out.)