Of course sighted fire has been proven to be superior, by Col. Cooper, and every IPSC, and later IDPA shooter, that probably ever played the game. I know I shot IPSC back in the 80's and later IDPA in the 90's, and also NRA Bullseye, NRA Hunter Silhouette. Except for a very few IDPA matches did I ever points shoot anything, but none of those targets were shooting back at me, from 5ft away, either.
Most all shooting qualifications are measured by some sort of target ring, with higher scores for better hits, except of course for steel and bowling pins, etc. So, of course sighted fire rules the day, but I think point shooting definately has a place in the real world of self defense, espacally for a CCW carrier, that quite often may need to start off, behind the curve, from a consealed carry holster.
I practice point shooting a lot, but that doesn't mean I can't make a better than average showing using sighted fire, however point shooting is a skill I want, in addtion to sighted fire, and the more I practice it at real world spitting distances, the more I believe in it, and the less value I put on nite sights, lasers, etc, for CCW.
Sure If I have time, I am going to use my sights, but point shooting just might be a life saving skill, doing all sighted fire practice does not nessairly hone one's point shooting, in fact to the contrary, I believe my point shooting practice has speeded up my sighted fire shooting.
Another thing I found out after many years of shooting flat mainspring housings on 1911's is that when I tried arched mainspring housings, my point shooting was a lot better. My favorite carry gun is a 4 inch lightweight 1911 with the tiny GI sights, even though I have several guns of the same size with high profile night sights. Sometimes it baffles me, that almost all of the custom 1911's are only offered with flat mainspring housings, then it dawned on me that is because few people point shoot, they just do sighted fire, and I think they are missing something because of it.