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phillips worst screw self stripping garbage
That is actually a feature of this design. They were the answer to in-line screwdrivers who had no precise stopping torque: cam-out before the thread is damaged.
Bug turned into a feature: https://handwiki.org/wiki/Engineering:Cam_out