I think we agree! Maybe one way to rephrase my angle is that I see many people getting overly concerned with what they imagine the state will use as an excuse and I think they're usually overestimating the impact of the action itself (usually!). I think that inoculation of the public against the state action or in favor of the radical political project is more important. Or as you mention, spreading a consciousness against the legitimacy of state action (and perhaps the state itself), including by inviting certain kinds of overreaction.

For example, I don't think there are many people out there that are more receptive to cops because anarchists burned a bunch of their cars. In my opinion it's unlikely to prevent radicalization and it's unlikely to create a reaction that is legitimized by the burning of the cars. I think it's actually more likely to help radicalize younger people for whom the image itself is inspiring and transfixing. It could draw the focus of budding fascists but I am skeptical that it would, itself, be pushing them into fascism.

What might push people away from radicalization is the pointless infighting from the supposedly anarchist post itself, but that's its own whole thing.