This isn't made to protect your camera from being hit from below or snagging your cable directly. It seems to serve one specific purpose - keeping the two halves of the gimbal from separating on hard impact where they are just held together by magnets. That separation causes the ribbon cable to break (so one would assume that the two gimbal halves can just be put back together and the magnets would reattach if you replaced your cable?). I'm curious if this is helpful as well.