I agree and I can show you a frame cracked in 3 placed due to a head-on shock and a Fulcrum racing 7 that didn't even need truing afterward to prove it.
I can pay testament to that - after ploughing head on into a cat at 40kph a few weeks ago my frame sheared in 3 places - the fork, wheels and everything else where unmarked.
The wheel, hit head on like that is way stronger than -say- the downtube.