Nah I don't agree with this, mainly because not everyone cares about a 'full recovery'.
For instance right, so long as I can walk after surgery, climb the stairs and don't have any lingering pain, I'd consider that fully acceptable. I'd 100% make the trade of 'never playing sports again' for an extra couple of centimetres height, mainly cos I haven't played sports in about 15 years anyway. Most people only use their legs for walking and aren't interested in squatting or running marathons, and so don't need anything like '100% recovery'.
8cm and no sports/heavy leg workouts absolutely mogs 6cm and 'I can play sports and do incel lifts like squatting' for the vast majority.
Once you have the surgery you will very quickly change your mind about having a full recovery. Moreover, though, the person that cares about a full recovery and insists on it is your surgeon. The have an ethical code and a reputation to uphold. Well, most doctors anyway. Feel free to tell any prospective LL surgeon that you don't care about a full recovery and see if they'll operate on you. You'll find yourself out the door pretty quickly.
Recovering from LL isn't just about squatting, sports, etc. It's about not having chronic pain, regaining ROM, flexibility, healthy bone growth, and of course walking normally with the same or better gait. The Dr's and patient's goals should be symbiotically aligned to get you to recover with those parameters in mind. Otherwise Dr.s' wouldn't bother working with you with x rays every 3 weeks, follow-ups, protocol, PT, stretching and sleep regimen, supplements and so on. They'd just operate and leave you to your own devices.
I just took my 4th set of X-rays, have
amazing bone growth, zero hardware damage, no pain when I sleep (nerve pain is gone), zero pain when I lengthen, still flexible, and am projected to make a full recovery without any complications. My PT tells me I'll be able to regain my original flexibility and ROM. All this is because I'm diligent with every single protocol prescribed by Dr. Rozbruch. And I don't want to be. I weigh 150 lbs and have the 12.5 mm rods. I could theoretically fully weight bear. I
begged him to let me. He wouldn't. He told me that walking now is nowhere near as important as recovering to same as before, but being 3.2 inches taller.
That's the result you want. Don't be short-sighted in your approach. You can have
both. What you want during CLL is the best Dr. possible and the best nail possible, both to get you through what will be one of the toughest times of your life with as little pain as possible, and maximizing your chances of coming out of this as close to 100% as you can. From a nail perspective, nothing comes close to Precice
as of now. Supposedly a full weight bearing version of Stryde will hit the market again eventually, and I think that's when CLL will go mainstream, though it's slowly but surely gaining steam and getting there.