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No, I'm not a mechanical engineer, but as has been said, EQ mounts don't require it, so why do it? Disregarding whether it's as stiff or not, it adds more work, more cost, and more fiddlyness to the whole thing.
Sure, if you have an alt-az mount on a wedge then you might need it, but for an EQ, you don't.
Think of a pier with a top that's not perfectly level. Now transpose this plate to somewhere else on Earth not too far away, and it will be perfectly level. All the adjustment to get perfect polar alignment is there to use, everything below the polar axis is irrelevant.
Cheers,
Jason.
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