You're missing the context, of course heat kills barrels. This thread is about just how hot a should you let the exterior of the barrel get before you stop? This seems to range from next to no heat at all (one group, then rest) to too hot to touch, which imo is virtually no heat at all.Um....no
Heat checking/cracking is a real thing, and not just in rifle throats. The same exact failure mode is present in high pressure die cast tooling particularly when being injected with metals that have a higher melting point like copper and its alloys.
Heat, not pressure, kills barrels. Unless your put so much more pressure in it that you exceed the elastic deformation limit. Then yes, pressure kills barrels.
If someone tells you their hand loaded 6cm died in 1k rounds, do you immediately think their rate of fire was too high, or that they're just loading way over max? Certainly they both play a roll, but one is obviously worse in this shooting discipline.