Not a thing wrong with "over thinking". One thing I've kinda had to come to terms with is that I am just wired to keep things as absolutely simple as possible. I am kinda obsessed with it honestly. I am the polar opposite of a detail oriented over thinker. I get a sick thrill out of dumbing things down to the bare essentials and making it work. There was a time I would have thought that made me right and others wrong, but what I've come to learn is that fishing, and catching fish, is as much about doing it in a way that gives you confidence and enjoyment as it is about discovering the best or most successful ways of doing things. Just a rambling way of saying that we can all do things in the way we like, and still be successful. It's just fishing after all. We're not saving lives here.
I've definitely had blue sharks hooked in a manner that I couldn't easily break them off, but really those were typically smaller ones that were either hooked in the flesh on their sides or somewhere or were just small enough that they didn't have the mass to provide enough resistance to break them off when I tried to do so.
Other than Guy's encounter Ive never dealt with anything I couldn't break, and even that thing likely would have broken off but the concern of losing a fly line caused us to handle it a bit differently. I break off more blues than I can count on a typical bait trip. Always cracks me up, when in the midst of a typical bait stop, someone hooks a blue and gets all excited about it. Before it can cause any issues or tangles I always tell them to point their rod my way so I can reach their line, at which point I grab the braid and jerk and break it off. Often times they are so sad and disappointed that they didn't get to land their shark lol.
Really though, the more I've thought about this, I can't think of a single thing I'd have a chance of hooking offshore that I wouldn't want to try to land. Outside of maybe a whale, or a porpoise, anything else that could be encountered that was large enough to be a concern would be cool enough that I couldn't bring myself to try to break it off lol.