Everyone wants to stick to specific scenarios and act as though that's the only handling/stopping/etc scenario that matters.
Sometimes it is better to spin out, than lose the ability to steer from less tread on the front tires, and go out of your lane straight, at full speed head-on into the other lane, or a tree or barrier, or the road curves but you don't.
The key factor here is no matter where, which of your tires are, you should always be driving within the capabilities of your vehicle, in the state it's in, and the environment it's in.
Anyone can say some certain thing is more safe. We don't all wear helmets or have roll cages either, yet these are also more safe.
It's also less safe to not rotate your tires so you have uneven wear, so whether they start on the front or rear, they're going to be rotated to the other axle roughly 50% of the time anyway. Hmmmmmmmmmm.