I do see your perspective here, if I'm hearing you right you're saying that even if the kill is humanely fast it doesn't sit right with you to see meat go to waste if preventable?
I've lost a few shoulders to hunting bullets over the years, and I'm sad to say I've lost a deer (just one thankfully) to a hunting bullet.
I'm at the place now where I don't consider it a problem to lose a shoulder (less meat there than most people imagine, if the back straps, tenderloins, and hindquarters aren't damaged you've got the vast majority of the meat). My 270 with hornady interlocks (130, 140 boat tail, 150) absolutely obliterates deer shoulders, but the low tech still penetrates through and it's usually quick killing (though we've all seen those explanation defying, testosterone and adrenaline fueled creatures that get hit about as hard as you can be barring a spine shot and go forever). To me a blown shoulder is no sweat, but a deer that is not recovered literally makes me sick to my stomach thinking about it. I've found on deer size game the kind of bullets that damage meat are also the ones that drop them fast.
Fragmentation is not failure if it kills faster than controlled expansion. What is failure to me is inconsistent results, not knowing if it'll blow up, pencil trough, or veer off away from the vitals.