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Screwball
Looking at the time stamps it took 2 1/2 hours to strip all that lambs tongue moulding. I could have seen that taking days before to get back to the wood and there was next to no filling required.
The glass is more likely to crack in small old panes and even then it only happened with the putty side of the window where the beading is lower profile and the putty needs more heating to soften than paint on the mouldings. Overall I lost 3 panes of glass from 2 top sashes out of 42. None once I started shielding the glass. On the rails and stiles I use a long piece of hardboard covered in mirror backing to protect the glass.