Reasonable thinking I can follow.... most any day I drive to work I'm not going to get into a car accident, however I still want a decent car with airbags and will put on my seatbelt to buy down my risk. Different folks have different experiences with different understandings to come up with different ways to mitigate to different levels of what's acceptable risk to them. And why not enjoy and find utility in what you do towards that. That's what a free country ought to allow.
Exactly how I feel about it.
On the appearance, a gun draws attention, period. That said, I'd still prefer one that draws a little less attention. Whatever floats someone else's boat, but I don't really want a gun that it looks like my 13 year old son designed it after playing too much COD zombies. If I was going for a design aesthetic, I'd rather go "battlefield pickup". But as I get older and have owned guns longer, I generally just prefer wood and steel. I appreciate the look of a nice modern gun, but it doesn't get my blood pumping as much as a nice, slightly worn parkarized 1911A1 with walnut grips, or 6" Colt Official Police 38spc, or M1 Garand, or 1903A3. A carry handle M-16A1 looks nicer than an M4 covered in do-dads and gee-gaws.
Doesn't mean my G34 doesn't have have matching OD green thread protector, slide stop, weapon light and mag release. But it doesn't have a zombie green slide with kill hashes on it. Or stars and stripes and coordinating red white and blue bits and a giant compensator with oversized magwell.
Okay, I'll judge guys a little based on their style (I judge people who drive PT Cruisers too, I am human), but sort of to each their own. I prefer my guns not draw extra attention and the over exaggerated styling has always seemed garish to me (like something from a cheap action or sci fi movie).
I see nothing wrong with functional things for actual function sake. You compete and need a big mag well and giant compensator, more power to you. If it really makes your shooting experience on the range that much better, go for it. I don't like the look and I gain nothing appreciable shooting paper or steel at 50yds and less with no scoring and no timing and no lives on the line. If that bullpup shotgun is better balanced, fits in your safe easier or is just easier to carry for what you want for it, go for it. They do seem more wasteful to me than most other guns.
Only because unless you have your own property to just shoot stuff on, almost every single clays facility I have ever been to is quite clear on a 23" minimum barrel length (I've seen a few that are 22 and some that are 24, but a lot seem to be 23"). So there goes using every bullpup shotgun I've ever seen for clays (not sure you'd really want something twitchier for clays). I guess you can hunt with one, though I'd be surprised if anyone has actually ever hunted with one. .410 shotguns are kind of expensive to shoot compared to a 12ga unless you reload. Even a gas operated shotgun sort of sucks to shoot slugs out of for very many shots, so even on a range you can shoot it on, you generally have to be firing slugs and how many are you going to want to shoot? A box? Two boxes? Maybe 3?
I guess for HD/self defense it can make a bit of sense. But being able to top up a tube feed shotgun isn't a bad thing in an HD/self defense scenario and is a lot faster to at least get a round or two loaded back up compared to swapping a magazine on a bullpup shotgun, especially if you are mildly practiced and have a side saddle.
Anyway, it doesn't HAVE to make sense to own one. That is the beauty of it all. Just stating the reasons I shake my head at it. But I don't have to get it and I am glad people can buy what they want, even if it isn't practical.