On teams I played on, Nukes always seemed to be openers. Drop nuke, eat blues, continue on as if nothing had happened. All removing the crash did was treat nukes the way players were using them: as normal attacks.
Back on live, my perma-Light Form PB routinely received healing from the crash during iTrials since the crash (used to?) set your HP to 50% regardless of what it was, and I was always somewhere in the middle of a giant mob of enemies going pew pew with lasers. I think I got healed by the crash more often than I got hurt by it under conditions where Light Form was actually saving my buttocks.