I came to the same conclusion as the OP, that's why I equipped my last guitar with a piezo pickup (LR Baggs Session VTC). I realised that many live recordings I like feature a UST pickup, (often Fishman Matrix or similar). The benefit is, you worry less about the feedback and you can get a really good sound although not necessarily natural.
In many sound examples of systems like the Tonedexter or the Aura, I hear on one hand sound closer to a natural one, but on the other hand very processed.
It's something I can achieve in my DAW, using many plugins and techniques to turn a UST sound into acoustic tone but often its still not as convincing as piezo sound with some EQ.
I think for live performance a piezo does a good job, I say that possibly because I'm used to it or maybe a quality UST pickup is not that terrible. And we only say this when we compare it to the sound of an unamplified acoustic.
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