The first step in the draw is to grab the gun in a firing grip. No part of a proper draw stroke includes giving-up most of your grip on the gun, so that you can put your thumb around on the wrong side to get at the safety. Even if someone has spent a lot of time developing it as a skill, they are still compromising their grip on the gun at the precise moment that they need to be concentrating on nothing but getting the gun out of the holster and onto the target. Even if it's instinctive, you've got your thumb on the wrong side of the gun! I wouldn't even consider it as a self-defense technique.
"A grip safety is just another excess moving part. I have never known one to prevent an accident, and moreover, it is difficult to postulate a circumstance in which it might." Jeff Cooper
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