Why the 🦆 is nobody talking about Nico Denz?

The crash in the finale of today's stage is the story of the day.
Cobbles. Napoli. A U-turn a few hundred metres before the line. Slightly wet. Slightly uphill. A bunch of sprinters trying to go very fast through a section where going very fast was probably not the smartest idea.
And yes, they crashed.

Unpopular opinion: I actually think this finale was ok. Not the prettiest I have seen, but certainly not the worst. A U-turn at least kills speed. The really nasty crashes often come from narrowings, barriers, fast corners, road furniture, all the places where riders are still doing 60 km/h and suddenly the road becomes half a road. I also take more offense to having a peloton ride for six hours in today’s weather conditions than to this corner.

But the real thing I can’t stop thinking about is Nico Denz. And even more: how is no one taking offense to this?
He crashed earlier in the stage, hit his head hard, looked completely groggy, couldn’t properly get up by himself, and then somehow people helped him back onto the bike.
Sorry, what?

We have concussion protocols now. At least, we say we do. But apparently when someone is lying on the road looking like he has no idea where he is, the old cycling reflex still kicks in:
Bike okay?
Rider sort of upright?
Get on your bike mate.

I’m not a doctor and I wasn’t standing next to him. But that is exactly why the default should be caution. If a rider looks like that after hitting his head, maybe don’t send him back into a WorldTour peloton for another 100 km. There was all the time in the world to check him.

Everyone is talking about the cobbled U-turn. Fair enough. But for me, the obvious safety question today was not only the parcours.
It was why a rider who looked concussed was put back on his bike like nothing happened. I hope they check him tonight and take him out of the race. “If the doctors are still in doubt, maybe rewatch the crash and see Denz was not really Denzing anymore.”