Android - Installing magisk with Android 11
Certainly not. It's safe
All that you are doing in this step is to
Check if your device is recognized in fastboot mode by
fastboot devices
Replace the boot image by the patched boot image on your computer by
fastboot flash boot xxx.img
.fastboot reboot
will boot you into OS where you can verify root as next step recommends.
This the normal way of rooting using patched images and will not affect your installed apps. See Magisk official documentation