So it saved you losing your fingers or hand. It would have been much worse with any other table saw. The aggressiveness of a dado stack and the damage it can do scares me thinking about it. Holding the throat plate in place I understand. Doing it with your hand is very dangerous. But you know that better than anyone. Hopefully others will learn from this. Maybe a bandaid doesn't fix every possible scenario but if you did this without a SawStop you would be telling a much sadder story. Hope you are healed up now.