Does cancelling the SharePoint Config wizard break a farm with multiple servers?

I''m having a discussion about the impact of the accidental cancellation of a started SP Config wizard. The wizard was cancelled almost immediately after incidentally clicking on it, only few websites where stopped.
Logs did not confirm any damage to the server (no errors logged related to defects shortly after wizard was cancelled) it was started on and Central Admin doesn't complain about any inconsistencies either. Colleagues say environment should be corrupt and
opts for full restore of the environment.
This conclusion to me sounds premature and extreme, by default why should the Config wizard break things just by starting it? Can anyone confirm this is the case or why this could be a possibility? I do not want to restore the entire farm based on assuming
the worst.
Logs don't confirm an invalid state of the environment, so what is his theory based on? Can any specialist shed light on the impact of running and cancelling the wizard on a server? Is he right and is the only option in this scenario a full database restore?
Is this a known issue or known behaviour of the config wizard?? Doesnt sound logical to me
[edit] Hope the moderator can forgive me and move this topic to General, my apologies for making this mistake

Thanks Rana, that s what my common sense also thinks about this situation. Rerunning the SPCW in such situation in my opinion would normally just complete successfully with no issues. I wanted to confirm here if the latter is normal behavior, since
my colleague says in general cancelling the SPCW breaks SharePoint by default I was kinda surprised.
In my own experience, if I have an "error free" environment and I run the SPCW and cancel it, rerunning the wizard will just finish the SPCW processes without any problem since nothing has changed in the binaries etc.
I know there is a possibility for the wizard to break things in scenario's where changes have been made to the environment (changes always oppose risks), but this isn't the case.

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