You point to a definite issue though… I heard of physicians saying that the boy should be able to stretch his foreskin within a few months, "or else" (surgery). Must be stressful for the boy.
My issue was that my father wanted me circumcised, but I wasn't because I was born in Belgium while he was at sea halfway around the world in Korea supplying the military.
My mother was dead set against it because first off it wasn't normally done in Belgium and also because of the number of Jewish friends and acquaintances who were deported and murdered in the East during the war. Circumcision in Europe being considered a possible mark of death during the Occupation years in which she grew up.
So there was tension (to say the least) between the two on the question of circumcision. When home, not always the case with the later Vietnam War and other conflict zones needing shipping to military bases, he would often try to scare me into getting circumcised, prophesizing incessant and uncurable infections of my prick and ultimately the necessity of amputation. He kept this unsubstantiated medical ranting up until the week before I married and had been coitising (Big Bang terminology) my gf for some 5 years.
So, small wonder that circumcision was often on my mind in one way or another as a specter that was was often terrifying. Don't forget, aside from all the pain and indignity of the surgery, here in Belgium at that time I would have been the outlier (and a possible Jew or Muslim - the horror) by being cut. It was bad enough just being known as having an American father with a non-Dutch, Anglo-Saxon name.
So yes, there was enough stress involved.
And my wife told me, she was often grilled on the matter by (lady) friends during gossip time. She was happy to disappoint them ... ha ha.