To expand on my statement, they are real to the extent that they do react to pressure, but the hysteresis dulls them to the point that is simply an idiot light.
I'm going to give you my experience with my 96: When I bought mine, the sender was cracked and leaking oil, but it still displayed pressure.
I went nuts over the oil pressure. The dash never reacted to actual changes in pressure, even after the new Sender was installed, and things were done to raise oil pressure.
I overheated mine twice in the early days, once due to a leaking end tank, and again because I left the cap loose. The only engine damage was the head gasket started to leak from the front RH corner, which most know, they can do that anyway, with or without a thermal event.
I also had mine shut down hot after pulling a loaded S6400 IH out of a ditch. It did the same thing, wouldn't crank, had a miss after it cooled down enough to refire. The next day it fired and ran normally. That was 2007. In 2015 I had the head off. Cylinders still had cross hatch at 303000 miles.
I think there will be little to no fallout from what you went through.
Start doing oil analysis. You will learn more from that to ease your mind.
OH yeah, it wouldn't have helped you, but if you have containers, you can drain and refill the cooling system and shed quite a bit of heat just from the interaction between the coolant and the air.
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