Ted today shooters use guns with porting all the time. Cutts was the easiest way to both reduce felt recoil, change chokes and reduce muzzle jump. I knew several Skeet shooters who had custom made Cutts Expansion chambers made with the slots angled and more on the top areas instead of to the sides. With them doubles in Skeet were faster because they had less muzzle climb to bring down into line with the second bird. Angled slots towards the front also made the muzzle a brake which reduced rearward motion. The fellow who designed it worked for IBM and his buddy the machinist worked for Lear Jet. They were precision made and the design did work very well. They explained that they could reduce the expansion chamber diameter to almost normal size of the barrel but not wanting other to notice their custom design they kept them the same size as the Cutts. I did find the noise to be slightly louder than the Cutts. They later changed the shape of their gas slots and claimed that it was better than the Cutts.
So Cutts might not appeal to your esthetic views but they did serve a real interest. They just ruin the straight lines of a barrel.
