OzExorcist
Broomcorn's uncle
Bronze Level
Idk. Maybe im thinking to hard here. I honestly dont find a reason to open shove with AK in late position. Shoving here , IMO, is a reckless play and highly unprofitable. The reason I say this is, the chance of us earning max value when shoving here is unlikely, but making the bet smaller makes the pot bigger and gives our opponents very little fold equity making it much easier to play PF.
While I agree that open shoving probably doesn't get us maximum value every time it's still a highly profitable play. Most of the time we pick up the blinds, we get called by worse hands fairly often and occasionally we'll be called by hands that have us crushed. That's a long, long way from "highly unprofitable"
Your examples also ignore the times when raising small preflop gets us paid less. What about the times when villain does something dumb like flats with AJ or 99 then check-folds on a Kxx flop? There's a good chance AJ or 99 would have called us preflop and lost their whole stack to us, now they only lose the minimum.
Lastly, if making our hand "easier to play postflop" is one of the criteria then I put it to you that a hand that's been shoved preflop is the easiest one of all to play postflop.