When enjoying my hobbies, like being in a ocean kayak, or on a bicycle or backpacking in the wilderness = 'taking risks and pushing your boundaries' is the type of attitude that gets most people in trouble or dead. I can't call that growth, not from any reasonable point of perspective.

Spent some time as a first responder (ski patrol and SAR), got a belly full of the consequences resulting from 'taking risks and pushing boundaries'.

Not sure what this has to do with taking any instrumentation off a bike.
Hope you learn the better lesson that 'letting all the unnecessary baggage go' can be liberating.