The only point i was making, is that crashing or even crashing often, is not a metric to use when determining bike handling skills. Van der Poel crashes just as often as many other CX riders. There are even CX riders who crash less often than him. But the only better bike handler in the CX peloton, even crashes more often than him. Pidcock crashes quite frequentely, both on the road, CX as MTB. Just google Pidcock + crash. It's about the risks at your skill limits. That means a worse bikehandler who takes less risks, can crash less than an excellent bikehandler who rides like Evel Knievel.
As such, i never claimed that Evenepoel is a good or a bad bikehandler, or that he is better or worse than Pidcock.