That wire might be prone to bend a lot if it were not for the spring "curl" in it.

The spring absorbs most of the shock and prevents it from being transferred to the base of the gear where it will do a lot of damage.

All too often I've seen people toss out sprung wire gear and mount either straight wire or straight struts.

Then they spend all their time reparing the landing gear mounts or struts.

In your case the gear will bend back and revert to a normal position on a hard landing.

At very worst you'll need to rebend the gear slightly, something you can do at the field, or at worst merely replace the wire strut. If you have a heavier duty wire bender you can also make your own, which I often do.

The closer the curl is to the wing the better. This puts all the leverage on that part of the wire.

With gear it is always a good idea to try to anticipate where all the leverage and shock will be asserted or transferred to. A bit of forsight saves a LOT of hassle later.

I think you'll do better with the spung gear.

Many ARFs come with sprung gear to avoid having to resort to very strong, expensive and more exotic systems to take the abuse.