Ejectors are no more reason to let a hull hit the ground than owning a fork is a reason to be fat.

I'm not extradordinarily coordinated beyond anyone else and even I can put my hand up reliably and catch the hulls at about the point where they are 3/4 or more the way out of the barrels and without even looking at them. This makes a reload simple and quick. Extractors are indeed simpler and less prone to fail. On an old gun, extractors make sense. On a modern gun of good quality, ejectors make sense. Some old guns didn't have the geometry figured out in the cocking mechanisms of ejectors or some even the hammer cocking, such that breaking the gun was a chore. Most modern guns have the geometry idealized and I for one hardly notice cocking ejectors.