Strange you should say that .... back in the day, an IPSC COF had to include 25% 'draw and fire exercises' out as far as 50 m.
I just returned from an intensive two day course during which each student fired in excess of 600 rds.
I was re-auditing the IPSC 'Black Badge' course as I had let my membership lapse a couple of years ago. Te course was $275 plus travel and accommodation expenses, and of course, your ammo.
We convened at the range at 8 am, shooting commenced at 10:30 after class room sessions and we shot until 5:30 pm with a 1/2 hour lunch break. Eight students shot from 7 m to 20 m - free style, (two hands), weak handed, strong handed, kneeing, prone, paper and steel. Lowest power floor was 9mm factory ammo except for me and one other dinosaur (I'll be 77 in November) who shot our antedeluvian .45 ACP 1911s with 170 power factor loads. You know the formula .... if not, I'll post it. My gun was actually a Remington 'Carry' Commander with 4-1/4" barrel.
There were full sized targets and several screened by 'No Shoots', one at 15m where only the top 1/3 of the target was unscreened. We shot through ports, doors, windows and of course - the classic "El Presidente" drill. There were pop up targets, bobbing targets and disappearing targets.
My point? At major IPSC events, attendance at some I've attended can be as high as 125 shooters shooting 10 stages, some of them to the maximum allowed 32 rds per stage. That's a LOT of shooting under pressure with loads you could go to war with. If you didn't use your sights and have good trigger control, your score reflected it.
But in CAS , the game has devolved to REALLY up close and dirty and 'gimmee' targets shot with wimp loads. Where there are HUNDREDS of participants, this makes sense as it accommodates a lot of people very quickly.
You either like it or not and you have the option of not participating if you don't. You pays you money - you takes you choice.
In my case, I like the slower pace of "old school' CAS, including any gimmicks thrown in for fun and variety. I get all the hype and speed I can handle with IPSC and then some! The IPSC shooters in Cowboy Boots can do their thing with wimp loads and we're all happy.