No matter how many safety feature are employed on a firearm, NO gun is “drop safe”.
Safety features are mechanical, so they can, will, and do malfunction.
“Safety features are mechanical, so they can, will, and do malfunction.”
This wasn’t a malfunction or mechanical failure. It was a bad, irresponsible design/production choice by Springfield. It was a missing safety feature.
Nothing is perfect, metal can break, but if you are going to drop a gun, you are probably somewhere between a 1,000x and 1,000,000x better off if the gun actually has a firing pin block.