 You have instability. You will plateau with strength. Your body has these safety mechanisms where it allows you to lift as much as it thinks you can lift safely. Not as much as you're capable of. Those are actually two different things. We've all heard the story of the distressed mom whose kid is pinned under a burning car and she somehow was able to lift the car off her baby. What the hell happened? Well, your safety mechanisms were overridden by your body saying or your brain saying, fine, let's get hurt because this is a dangerous situation. Let's override these safety mechanisms. These safety mechanisms exist and if you have any instability, your strength isn't going to go anywhere. You might be able to squat more weight, but if your body like, ah, your knee is not very stable there or your ankle is not very stable or there's going to be an injury here with your core, it's going to prevent you from doing so. And if you push past that, eventually you hurt yourself. And of course, I don't need to make the argument that injury will stop your strength gains.