What are the floor plates on the 16 round magazines?
In situations like this, I found that the thin metal floor plates can help, if the magazine has thicker plastic floor plates.
However, yes, there are guns, where the 16 rounders will not work.
I use those magazines in the P-01, which has a "boot" floor plate to fill the gap between the end of the magazine and the end of the handgrip. :-)