It’s not quite that simple though, the chinpiece of any full facer isn’t designed to absorb blows in the same way as the skullcap (after all it’s mostly not in contact with anything). It’ll transmit some energy into the foam elsewhere though. Same with motorbike helmets, the amount of foam in the chinpiece is vestigal (it’s only about 10mm thick on my Arais but that thin foam is also full of air vents).
But, that’s only one part of it… Riddle me this, if gloves don’t have EPS or any similiar way of reducing an impact, does that mean they can’t protect you in a crash? If you take a hard hit full on the chin, it’ll push the helmet back and it’ll most likely not make an enormous amount of difference to the force of the blow- if you were going to break your jaw, then most likely you’re still going to. But, you’re not going to scrape your face off on a load of rock. It’ll also potentially do a bit of spreading and relocating the blow (a tree going for your teeth won’t get there)