I agree with loads of the comments on this post. Too many people using saws that they should not be using. I have seen some horrors over my life with people and saws, and always those people claiming the saws are rubbish or useless are part time saw users. I don't know the saw in question, but if grenaded, I would say user problem caused it through ignorance.
I run all 2-strokes at 20-25/1 all my life and never grenaged a saw or power tool in my lifetime. Now retired. I know makers claim 50:1, but never have I ever followed this recommendation in all my years as a wood cutter, and none of the other cutters I worked with over many decades did this lean mix ever.
But we also ran them rich on purpose up here in the North with peat hills and mountains to hold back the midgie's a bit. So only a few hundred would bite you instead of clumps of 1,000's