Risks of Running High Amp Alternator?

Whenever someone starts preachin' to me about "how smart" the engineers were that designed something, or that they "built it that way for a reason" I think of stuff like THIS. They KNEW the answer, and partially solved it with the police/taxi/ fleet wiring modification

The biggest part of the problem is usually with the bean counters who won’t pay to do it right. A Lot of the time the technical decisions turn into budget decisions.