The upper left picture is somewhat misleading. If one is running an Alterk with a sway bar as is shown in your lower right picture. The sway bar will provide strength to the LCA in the fore and aft direction as you site as a concern. This will Increase the 8” dimension to 16” (I just measured mine) which is better than your OEM measurement.
Sorry, there is no engineering basis to support the belief that the sway bar resists any front to rear forces on the lca.
And rick, hold on, I'm still loading
Reality check, that half the population is smarter then 50% of the people and it's a constantly contested fact.
