Unless it is the last ball, there is no sense in making one ball. I'm never going to pocket a ball if it doesn't give me a runout or a chance to play a lockup safety Efren couldn't get out of.
Most folks past banger level understand that pocketing a ball without any way forward is a benefit for the other player. Even in eightball you have cleared traffic out of their way. That is why I give minimum focus on pocketing the object ball. It has to fall for the angle off of the object ball to take me to the next point I plan to hit. On the rare occasion where I make the object ball and miss shape it pisses me off because that means the shot went south at the planning stage. If I miss, I am almost certain to miss the object ball and shape. I prefer it that way. Old eyes and creaky joints creating executional errors are preferable to mental errors. Mental errors mean you were whistling in the wind when you bent over.
Hu