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True but, with pressure, water can cut metal. I'll be heat softening it with my PCB toaster oven to see if I can recover it. If it's just a leak, and no electrical damage, as you mention, it's probably ok.
Probably, I'll still get a new hotend, even if there's no breakage because I think that the PTFE feed tube is a bit of a weak link.