You want them to be strapped to an exploding console?
If they remembered how to make seatbelts, they'd remember how to make circuit breakers too. Exploding consoles are dramatic license just like flying around the bridge is.
Plus Geordi probably got tired of being left in the darkness becuase who ever captured him this week is a sick f@#k who thinks torturing and/or brainwashing and/or experimenting on a guy who can't see becuase you took his Visor is a fun way to pass time.
I don't blame that on the VISOR, I blame it on the writers who couldn't think of a good use for it other than a torture implement.
As I've said before, I've become convinced that TNG would've been a better show if they'd made Worf the chief engineer and Geordi the security chief. Then we could've seen the VISOR developed as the superpower it should've been -- and its vulnerability to tampering would've been Geordi's kryptonite, the thing that balanced out the advantages it gave him, rather than being the only thing they ever did with it so that it seemed to have no advantages.