No, it's never going to bite you in the ass, because if it doesn't work, it takes two seconds to bend it back to the original position.This.
Just randomly bending the lock bar is not great advice, especially as a first step and people should stop recommending that. There's more to it than that and sometimes one change affects two or three other things.
In before someone comes along with "I've done it a bunch and it works great".
Sooner or later it will bite you in the ass.