No I've always used a standard grip. Doing it thumbless, it would seem to me, means your wrist has to be beant back more therfore putting all the force on the bone. I wouldn't do that but to each his on. (See how that rhymed?)

Good work. I think though you need to recognize the target audience for Starting Strength which is primarily other coaches. Therefore a lot of assumptions are made in terms of coaching commons sense. The one part that stands out for me is the part about shoulder problems.

Reading that will make people think that if they pay attention to elbow positioning they will be safe from shouder problems. But SO many of the long terms shoulder problems come simply from the fact that the bench is given so much emphasis by everyone (perhaps undeservedly). It's all about the pecs for the average trainee. They do more bench than anything else. They don't balance it with back work or anything else. They do zero overhead pressing. And they end up with chronic shoulder problems in the long run.

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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.