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I sincerely get your concern. Clearly explain on the box what NOT to do and be explicit about the risk. Use an icon of a house on fire. Done. Life is risk, and regulating and banning things based on the lowest common denominator of human judgement is a fool's errand. Should we ban vehicles as well since about 40k people die from vehicle related fatalities annually?

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In my view it's more that: electrical safety has advanced to it's current "version" and allowing these panels is a regression in safety. There's already plenty of products/theoretical-products that are banned and/or tightly controlled for electrical safety sakes (suicide cable is the poster child).

To use your car analogy, we're not banning vehicles. We're disable one of the airbags when enabling fuel economy mode.

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