Yeah everyone has their own goals, I understand.
In my personal opinion and what I have been told from people in the top tier is that training powerlifting style training and numbers doesn't matter, unless you are more natty than enchanced then I believe you need to do as much heavy lifting as you can with high volume. I still believe Doug miller was natural a few years back (not anymore since the Jay Cutler Classic last year) and thats how he trains and most the top level "natural" dudes, once you are on GH though everything goes through the door you don't have to train like they did in the old days.
Thats from my experience and seeing people who are at that level train, even though I train harder than them
I am not disagreeing with you

, just providing my view on it, I can see your side pretty well and numbers help keep the motivation in check.
You planning to compete, you're stats make me think you'll lean towards classic physiques which just got announced