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All you're proving is that a double height adjustable coilover will let you go lower than a ground control setup with an OE replacement shock. Good for you, you're right. Unless you do something to the shock, you won't be able to lower the car as much without losing a lot of suspension travel.
As for the ride versus handling relationship, they're a lot more connected than everyone seems to realize. All those bumps and the harshness you feel at the driver's seat has to come from somewhere. So if it is getting transmitted through the tire into the suspension and into the chassis, then what kind of fluxuations in vibrations do you think the tire is seeing. That's bad for grip. The shock is meant to control the accelerations that the tire and the chassis experience. So a good ride will allow the car to handle better than a harsh ride. Of course, it won't ride like a caddy, because things will be happening a lot faster due to stiffer components, but it can still ride nicely. I've built dampers that ride nice and perform better. On the street, they were perfectly fine, not much harsher than a stock Accord, and on the road course the benefit of this ride quality was seen in several sections of the course where there were some larger bumps or rougher sections. These sections were unsettling a lot of the car, but our car could go right over them with no problems.
So a spring sleeve setup is not something for people who want to slam their cars or don't really know what they're doing. There are a million different ways to do the suspension and they all have their pros and cons. It depends on what you want and what you care about.
Tim
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