I knew a guy who always de-tensioned, and he also made his own throat plates. When new he would use a sharpie to write TENSION on each of them so he was looking down at it when he was setting up his cuts. Seemed to work for him. I have tension arms on both of mine, but never use them. If I could swap them I'd have brakes on mine.
I'd never seen, or heard the term Poka-Yoke. I searched it, and evidently I've lived a sheltered life. :-) Looking further I see it's, Poka-yoke (poh-kah yoh-keh) is a tool used in Lean and Six Sigma tooling. manufacturing term.