Mind you, they immediately went and developed less harmful versions of warp drive; both Voyager and the Defiant are known to do better in this regard. There was less than a year between warp drive being found harmful and the Defiant getting pressed into service. Voyager launched a few months later.

Getting subspace-friendly warp drives into ships must've been an extremely high priority for them to retool at least two ship classes late during development.

(Also, it was mentioned a few times again, even if only barely. TNG mentioned it a couple times in the same season and VOY mentioned it once. Not much but something.)

What is this whataboutism?

Voyager's nacelles folded up and down to fix that.

It was just that simple all along. Gosh dangit, Trek writers are so smart.

Didn't they default to slower speeds the rest of the series and only increased during emergencies? It's been a while, but I seem to remember it actually spanning many episodes, even if they didn't harp on it. Pretty good for an episodic series, really.

I know rite? Better to blast right through hell!

Everyone knows that suggestively rubbing gel on yourself while bathed in UV light kills conservatism.

The difficulty is that if you become too conservative on an away mission, you will refuse to de-con afterwards. The unfortunate but only working and thus standard response to this is to simply abandon such crew members on the planet.