The wheel, hit head on like that is way stronger than -say- the downtube.
I agree and I can show you a frame cracked in 3 placed due to a head-on shock and a Fulcrum racing 7 that didn't even need truing afterward to prove it.
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The wheel, hit head on like that is way stronger than -say- the downtube.