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In some firearms, things like firing pin springs, recoil springs, and magazine springs are considered to be "consumables" ... just like the timing belt or chain in a car, for instance. Heck, even gun barrels are consumables. (Read up on AR15 gas vent erosion for just one example of why.) However, most of these things will last through MANY thousands of more cycles than the average user will ever subject them to, so for all practical purposes, this is not something most of us will ever have to worry about for almost any gun built in the last 75 years or so.

I still have the original firing pin spring, recoil spring, and magazine springs in my dad's old 1943 Ithaca 1911A1 which he carried in WW2. They still work fine, and for the years from 1945 to his death in 1990 when I inherited that gun, it was kept uloaded, but the magazines had been stored loaded with FMJs. And to the best of my knowledge, Dad never fired a gun again after the war....having already had all of the gunfire he ever cared to experience again. So that was 45 YEARS of storage with the magazine springs under tension. These days, the mags are unloaded, and the pistol is mostly a safe queen. I bring her out once in a great while, but she’s earned her rest. But when I do bring her out, I still use the old WW2 magazines, and they function just fine.

Anyway, all of this was my long-winded way of repeating to the OP what others have said.... don’t worry about it.