“cant get caught in the rotors and jam them up”
Off the top of my head, ime when you open a QR lever from being closed (and being correctly adjusted to be closed), the lever won’t travel far back enough on itself to reach the disc
If the QR has opened fully, there’ll be so much play that you’ll have stopped before the nut could loosen significantly to allow any lever to travel any further back on itself?
Apart from on the maxle, I’ve always gone for nds/left/disc side. rear allows easier wheel removal, front to match. On shimano QR’s I find the lever fits better around the fork on the nds/left/disc side. I prefer it pointing up in front of the fork leg anyway