I've seen my fair share break on a work boat. Recreational Dive boat where you're gear is spaced relatively clean, not so much an issue unless you snag yourself pulling out of your cubby.
When your gear's piled into a RHIB or worse, a 12ft Gamefisher, guarantee you're losing zip tie connections to slates, SPGS, meter tapes, etc etc.
Once gear starts getting pulled from the middle onto the benches, you're snagging everything. It takes a real dedicated and clean-freak minded crew to avoid that. And you don't get that on a work boat because often times you're a *
insert job career* first, diver second.
That's where my disdain for zip ties came from.
Line connected items, they'll take a beating for seasons and seasons.
Will you have to replace your zip tie connections often in the rec world? No, probably not. But I don't like that they can't take a twist load on them, they require a shears/bolt cutter for clean application, and plastic waste (not that nylon line is wonderfully better, it just lasts longer).