A 10% chance for Medicine Boy to get seriously injured and out of commission for over a month sucks. I get it. For most quests that'd only be a possibility during boss fights or pivotal moments. In this quest, it's a risk on what looks like a routine, normal action. And while that might fit the tone of the quest, it's still far outside what most voters are willing to risk except in the direst of circumstances.
Last time, we didn't know the risks with researching the Sword at all. We had no idea anything worse than failing the action was possible. If we'd known how risky it was, we probably wouldn't have done it then. And I wouldn't be surprised if after what we've learned now, we might not research anything else for a long time. I get the idea that we should wait until we get something to mitigate the danger. But given the very random nature of building and workshop upgrades, it might be a very long time before we're lucky enough to get an upgrade that makes researching safer, if ever.
Even given all that, though, I'm still voting to research the Kolobok. Because these are dire circumstances. MGs might be incredibly resilient, but even then we know that most of them die anyways. A few getting injured together might be enough to overwhelm Medicine Boy. And there's going to be a few dozen local MGs by the end of this. MGs who are completely new, have equipment that's gonna break soon, and are in a warzone with a demon prince. I know OOC they're just minor characters, but IC if we start having people die that our protagonist could have saved, it's going to suck.
Going back a second, we haven't upgraded the workshop nearly as much as we could have. The path we've gone down is one where we've prioritized helping as many MGs as much as we can. It hasn't worked out perfectly, and there's no telling what might have been down a different path, but what we have gained is that we actually can house most MGs currently. We have a handful of experienced and armed MGs. We have Jocelyn running Mission Control. Doing a research project to improve our healing isn't a temporary desire, it's following the core path we've traveled so far. I don't want to give that up, and I don't think it's fair for our protagonist to shy away from danger when those he helps are often in far more danger than he is.