Wow, thanks dude, I was looking at them yesterday. The boat I ocean fish on has those, I diagnosed a bad one on the high seas last summer-------------O:)
I think generally, the reliability of marine style equipment blows the doors off standard off the shelf automotive stuff.
Having years and years of marine experience with all it's trials end errors it kind of made sense to use things that have proven themselves in that environment to make auto stuff more reliable and functional when we can.
(ex Ocean boat owner, fisher and scuba diver here) and NOTHING sucks worse than having something break or quit working out there.
Screw fusable links. :D
That was a 40 year old solution.