Golf has developed that way though, with the way clubs are made, and angles on them, you pick what you need for the distance you need to play. There are rules for golf, as there are rules for pool. The jump cue is not needed at all, it adds nothing good to the game past making it trivial to play a shot that used to take quite a bit of skill to execute. Someone executes a 3 rail safe where the balls travel 20 feet to hook a player, they whip out a $60 short stick and hop out of it. Like practicing for years with a sword to have some dope with a 70 IQ pull out a gun and shoot you from 50 feet away. Skill vs equipment.
Someone wants to jump vs kick, no problems, use one of your full cues you have at the table and jump away. It's not taking away the options, it's making the options equally a skill shot. Ball is hanging in the pocket, but you need to jump with a full cue, that's a skilled shot, so you see if that is better vs kicking at it. Other than that almost every situation is better done with a jump cue because it's so much easier to make a legal hit for most players, especially if it's a good safe that cuts off rails for the kicks.