I agree, would never use that system. Seen too many racks crack and break in Baja.

That sort of system puts stress onto your steel rack ... not to mention those "Wedge" mounts and plastic plates.

When riding 100's km on bad wash board road, most racks will crack and fall apart. Lots of wasted time getting things welded up. Been there, witnessed this several times.

I prefer old school "throw over" soft bag system where straps go OVER seat or frame, which takes 90% of the shock from rough road. You only need keep the bag off the exhaust.

You can still crack a rear sub frame if you over load your tail bag or box however.

With straps over the seat you have built in shock absorber system (soft seat) and on some bikes, you can go with NO RACK at all, just a heat shield for pipe.

I'm curious if you removed ALL the luggage off your KTM every night?
To me, that is A LOT of extra work. I've traveled with guys using Wolfman ... and getting it all off and back on is a bit of a job, IIRC.

I prefer INNER bags (the Nelson-Rigg panniers shown above come with inner bags)

All my stuff goes in inner bags. At Hotel, grab inner bag from panniers and go. Panniers stay put. Of course I take my top dry bag in as well. I use no tank bag, only Camel Back.

So only one trip from bike to room. And less than one minute putting inner bags back into panniers. About two minutes to strap on tail bag next morning.

I've seen guys struggle removing and remounting panniers onto their bikes with racks. Some use a lot of extra straps, hooks and such. With Inner bags, my panniers stay put on the bike. Always. I don't worry about theft of bags themselves. Secure parking a priority.