That’s a concern with moving, mechanical things like bearings or a pressurized vessel of some sort.
It would seem to me that battery compression fixtures to a manufacturer’s specification or recommendations is less about the exacting torque of fasteners and resulting clamping force and more about creating a containment mechanism from everything I’ve read or seen.
One shouldn’t position themselves to drown in the details when the details are only one inch deep. In other words, one shouldn’t overthink the details if one is debating with a talking sparrow.
The idea is mere containment - and think of how many manufactured batteries are essentially not compressed at all!