You don’t need more than 150 oz of torque in a 1/10th scale. I came from a day when 80 was overkill and now why 450+.. is it numbers like contrast ratio on tvs or ?

It comes down to what you are doing with your RC mainly. And a servo saver keeps the servo from destroying steering geometry components such as bellcranks and hubs, casters, spindles...

It seems larger torque numbers strain the hubs unnecessarily, and other steering geometry, wheels, casters, etc from
over binding torque holding power.

There has been a trend for bigger torque over the years and I see why and it is a good thing but it can be a downfall as well.