I once got in a scuffle with a smaller, weaker guy, and while I could flloor him with one punch, my face had to absorb all the force of each blow, and I looked worse despite knocking him on his ass +5 times, since most of the force of my punch was wasted moving his whole body. I strongly agree deflection is much gentler than absorption.
For example, most chainmail was not only not especially hard, it was necessary to soften it with height to make it effective. 3rd, you couldn't use hardened but untempered steel as armour, since it'd just shatter, so you'd need to temper it, and tempered steel is springy in nature, its a big reason its used! Now, while a stiff enough spring might not bend/deflect very easily, it still will, so I wouldn't assume armour that has somehow been heat treated wouldn't bend under a blow.
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Hotter the metal = more shrinkage in metal working, and as full plate needs to be fitted pretty well, this could be a big problem. 2nd, if you are heat treating something thin, you need even heating to minimize distortion after quenching, and without a 'modern' heat treating oven this would be terribly difficult. 1st, at the hardening temperature steel is pretty soft, and your breastplate will likely be distorted, if not 2 dimensional due to lack of structural integrity. Apparently some armour was casehardened, which adds carbon in a thin layer on the outside of the metal, but even with this, heat treating armour would be a literal nightmare, for a number of reasons. I've done a bit of cold forging, and it can produce very strong finished products without bothering to harden. The cold forging adds lots of stiffness, and some hardness, but you need to stress relieve with heat or you'll get cracking. The hardened steel thing is an odd point, as iirc, most armour was cold forged from very low carbon steel, which is quite soft, and cannot be hardened by heat treatment. I think a strong argument can be made that on a battlefield, with disciplined troops, platemail is an unnecessary cost, and use of a good shield is good enough really. Look at some gladiator armour, it has similar aspects to 16th century armour (particularly the protection for arms, which was regularly made of overlapping plates, and I don't mean scales!).
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I think the tech of the later greeks was probably about good enough to make plate mail, the Romans definitely knew how to make basic plate, though iirc metal's staggering cost and the limited benefit in pitched battle with a large shield meant nobody bothered. This could be wrong though, as some cultures don't think small waisted men are intimidating. If you really wanted a good place to 'carry' the weight of the armour from, I'd favour the hips, and hopefully avoid a sore back that carrying it at the waist could produce. I would argue that biological imperative is responsible for thin waists being fashionable, as a small waist is in most cases a sign of health and youthfulness, as most people get chunkier with age, meaning a smaller waist might actually be more intimidating, especially with bigger shoulders/hips in contrast. When I was at my skinniest, I think I had about 20 inches difference from waist to chest, and this would be hard I think to fit plate armour to, and there are more extreme bodies out there. Note there are/were men with very large chests that would be harder to fit into armour, especially if the wearer is very muscular, as their effective size varies quite a few inches when their muscles are flexed, requiring a looser fit which would be very uncomfortable when not flexing. So, the standard male breastplate with it's protruding/domed center would likely fit just fine on a woman. It would be easy to design a breastplate to accommodate an average woman's bust line back in the middle ages, in part because women were on average quite skinny, and thus would likely not have prominent breasts. This is why maces for example used flanges or even spikes apparently, so they wouldn't skid off metal but catch and deliver their full force. Regarding boob plate, the huge glaring problem is that having the center of the breastplate not stick out is very bad armour design, as you really want plate armour because its so good at deflecting force, and distributing the force that can't be deflected away. I enjoy watching Shad's videos, though I don't always agree with him I think he's pretty bright and knows his stuff. There were some alternate rules in Unearthed Arcana that radically changed how armour worked, and it was at least interesting food for thought. 3rd ed DnD tried to make non-armoured fighters more viable, with some success.
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