It is really hard for any mechanic to say “go ahead and drive” when a suspension or brake component has a known fault. It is one thing to be driving on a broken part if you do not know it is broken (I am speaking ethicaly) and a completely different story if you do know the part is defective.
There is an entire new area to explore if you want to include the degree of “brokeness” in the conversation. You most often get into this conversation with ball joints as some say any play in a ball joint is to much, but when a ball joint fails the results are much more likely more catastrophic than the results of poor handling (espically if you are used to the poor handling).