Whether it is in order or not, it is in their top ten list! I have never done it accidentally and find it hard to image anyone doing it by mistake, but obviously it happened enough to make the top ten list and for them to change the design.
Agree completely - when the company themselves publish a list of the top failures - it would seem to be impossible for anyone not affiliated with the company to dispute it - yet apparently some still try - with no evidence other than their statement!
I do however see how a new user could trigger it accidentally very easily. Picture someone new to the hobby - hasn't read any of the forums, has not even opened up the manual and (at best) has skimmed the quick start guide. The drone might have been a gift, a contest prize or an impulse purchase by some rich kid with a trust fund. They manage to get the drone in the air - and then they get so far away that they can barely see it - or can't see it at all. They start to wonder if the controls are still working at all. At this point they are no longer trying to "fly the plane responsibly", they are jamming the controls in all directions trying to get some sort of response out of it - and its too far away for them to see that the control are actually working! And eventually they stumble upon the CSC command and their drone crashes to the ground.
BUT.... They'll see the telemetry is changing even if they can't see the drone....!!!
Teleme-what??? Bruh - throw me another brewski...this things not workin'
BUT.... All they have to do is press RTH to bring it home!
RTH? Nah man - that's for "right hand turn". Where the hell is the "Come Back" button??? Here Bruh - you try....
The reason that some people have a hard time picturing anyone accidentally invoking a CSC is because they assume that all pilots are like themselves and at least TRYING to fly the thing responsibly and that they CARE about the $1,000 investment. But even people who are trying to do things right can mess up. If you're in your 40's or older - surely you've interacted with enough people to know that everyone handles stress differently. So, consider a fairly new pilot who hasn't read the full manual and hasn't joined a forum. He has a few successful flights and builds up his confidence a bit - then something goes wrong or appears to go wrong and (instead of calmly thinking things through), he panics and starts moving the controls in every possible direction.
And of course as I said in other posts, some 3rd party programs change the functions of the joysticks when in certain semi-autonomous flight modes.
Anyhow - there are lots of ways it can happen - as DJI is acknowledging by placing it first on their top ten list. (Whether it really is first, or fifth, or eighth is largely irrelevant)
A problem that is almost as big as the poor choice of stick combinations for CSC - is the apathetic attitude of some of we responsible fliers - especially in the case of my first few examples with the drunk, wealthy teenager. He's not taking out hobby responsibly - possibly generating bad press and is generally an embarrassment to all of us. So because he's such an *** - we don't advocate on their behalf and we think that he "deserves" what he got and we hope that he doesn't buy a replacement. And I definitely agree that the hobby would be better off without those people...
BUT... the safety of innocent bystanders has to be more important and take precedence over punishing an ******* that definitely needs to be punished.
Any preventable accident should be prevented.
There are better, safer choices possible for killing the motors in flight - and ensuring that it's intentional. If the faction within our own ranks that believes that punishment is more important than safety would stop fighting us - DJI might actually listen and implement a smarter solution - but as long a their is dissension amongst us - any progress on this front will be as slow as molasses.
It will likely take one of the DJI competitors implementing a smarter solution and highlighting to the media the WHY's of what makes their design better and safer before DJI will wake up and take notice!