I'm looking at Runva winches and I see they come with a "shackle thimble" instead of a hook like you usually see.
Every winching thing you ever see or read says limit the amount of links and hardware in a pull so you have less things to fail and less potential missiles.
e.g. connect extension straps by threading them through each others loops, don't use a shackle to connect them.
A hook is just a single hook, a shackle thimble obviously needs a shackle as well so seems like adding rigging to the setup, breaking a pretty commonly held rule?
So why do I want a shackle thimble instead?