Intense has "little to none" quality control. I have worked in a shop for quite some time and I have seen many brand new Intense frames that are crooked, or they have poorly installed bearings (indext), also being sent with the wrong drop out size and poor welds.Then when sent back to Intense to get straight one they sent another crooked one. In previous years they have had great bikes but I feel as if they are now just coasting off of the name they built up years ago and they are letting their quality really fall behind. I hope this can change because they are losing customers fast.

It is actually for the reason that if someone were to over tighten the clamp, it would strip the threads of the face plate and not the body of the stem which is much cheaper to replace.

I don't know how that would happen unless you crash on your drive side. If so, clean your bike after the ride.