You apperantly haven't spent much time operating tractors that dance on two wheels. I've done a lot of it. Some by necessity and some for the sake of it. I mostly learned to drive by hauling 1000-1200# round bales on a spike hitched to a Ford 860. Many a trip was made in reverse up a hill and many more were headed down hill with the front wheels in the air, steering on the brakes. The worst thing that was going to happen is that the bale would hit the ground, bounce and the tractor would settle down... or if it was a real heavy one I'd have to let the bale down, back up and spin around again. I did hundreds of hours of that. There are very few situations where the tractor will pass it's balance point on the rear axle before a three point load touches the ground, so I don't expect that the linkage would need to support the weight of the tractor. You are no doubt correct that some would fold up quite easily under that kind of weight if they were placed in a situation where the weight of the tractor was placed upon them. Most that I deal with would not. That would depend entirely on the tractor.
ROPS will not prevent a tractor from flipping over. They will probably prevent someone from being killed if they do flip it over provided that they're wearing a seat belt.
Tractors are only lumps of iron. They can be controlled. There's more value in learning about what they can do rather than worrying about every stupid little thing that could happen. Popping a wheelie on an old tractor is not something to stain your pants over. It's pretty normal, really.
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