The hardest hitting scrapping **** in the game

I think, to your point, worrying measured sustained DPS outside of the situations you're talking about is kind of meaningless anyway. We use AVs and pylons and such to measure our sustained DPS because they're the only things that generally last long enough for us to sustain an attack chain long enough to bother measuring what we were sustaining. Since that means we have to sustain those attack chains, well, they have to be endurance sustainable. So that's pretty much always what we'll end up measuring.

I'm sure there are some middle ground conditions, maybe fighting some Elite Bosses or something, where we might win a fight faster using a higher DPS chain that's not actually sustainable for longer term fights. But I'm not sure it's worth the effort to develop and document, even for the numbers freaks we foster in this forum.