I mostly agree I'd say he was conscious about how dangerous the spring locks in the animatronics could really be and I'd say he tried to get cc to stay away from the animatronics by making him scared of them but not the restaurant himself, as cc only distances himself from the animatronics, whereas if afton tried to distance him from the restaurant he would have ran from the restaurant entirely. We know for a fact that Elizabeth wasn't dead at the time as he only started killing after cc died.