Yep, reduces reliability.
If it takes less hours to repair a tire with air versus more hours to repair a tire with fluid, one can easily see that’s lost reliability.
2 times I had gashes with rim guard and it made a big mess. Then you have to find a tire repair company that can handle the stuff. If you are very lucky, you might get someone later the same day. Then the tire needs pumped out, removed, tubed, or if really bad-replaced, then refilled with same fluid.
Do you really think every tire company is just hovering around with a drum of rim guard or calcium chloride or whatever you run waiting to save your ass when it happens? It could take days. Costs a lot more money when it happens, too. Meanwhile your hay is getting browned in the sun, your rotary cutter isn’t cutting. That’s lost reliability.
If it’s just air with wheel weights, ANY large tire repair can remove tire, tube it and you’re working again.
The difference between you and me is you downplay this because it’s easy to see you’ve never been through it while relying on your tractor to make money.
I’ve been through gashed tires and lost 30-40 gallons of it everywhere and know what the repair time and lost reliability is to myself and my customers. It sucks and it doesn’t happen on government time, it happens on MY time.