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That's absolutely the sort of scenario where a damper would help! For reference it is really good at stopping your arms fatiguing while climbing, basically you're not correcting a shit load of sideways, deflecting movements the whole time. It's the same for techy rock stuff.
It's also really good at saving your arse if you're overcommitted and leaning into a corner, then a wet root or loose rock hits the front wheel. It feels like it's catching you and your arms don't have that jolting movement to correct. Amazing once you get used to it..
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I tried riding some real rocky technical flat terrain on my Honzo the other day and it was a shitemare. If you’d seen me riding you’d have been forgiven for thinking it was my first time on a mountain bike!
I put it down to the slack head angle and overall length of the bike.
I think I was over correcting and the front wheel was flopping around a lot so is this the kind of thing a damper would help with or are they really more for riding at speed?