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There's a very valid reason why you don't just turn off your computer by yanking the plug out of the wall socket - and flipping the PSU switch is the equivalent of doing that. Do that to your desktop computer a few times and see how well it runs as a result...

Yeah I have turned PC off GPU rigs at the switch a couple thousand times. It is a non-issue. There is a reason open frame GPU miners used power supplies with a physical power switch on back.

you missed the whole point, the motherboard being hooked up properly with those pins tells give the PSU a reference as to what to do and that its ready to shut things down instead of POP powers gone.

Regardless of the 2 pins that are shorted, the other voltages drain into the motherboard after it's turned off.

Might be why some models don't have bleed off resistors on filter caps - cost-cutting designers arguing that the voltages will bleed off into the motherboard while at the same time giving a slight efficiency increase to the power supply stats compared to the same supply having capacitor bleed off resistors.