I think it all comes down to personal preference and how people hold themselves to what they want out of the tournament, and poker in general.
I mean, some people have the approach to a tournament that they will do whatever it takes to increase their winnings. If they're leaning towards the short stack but they know they've still got a few people infront of them, they can wait it out and let them go out first but let the blinds pretty much make it so you can't recover. If they believe those winnings will aid their game at another event or aid their bankroll in future efforts then to them thats that.
And some people are purely focused on winning. There are quite a few times I've been near but not on the rim of the bubble for winnings, decided to risk my stack to try and push to win rather than sit around, and then go out with nothing or little than the buy-in.
In the long run though, when you focus on purely the cash you end up blinding yourself from becoming a better player. If you focus on trying to win and purely playing better, the winnings eventually catch up to you. Because with that mentality you're going to look at everything with a positive perspective and look at any hands you lost or bad beats and learn from that.
With winnings in mind;
"I'm just not hittings hands in this tourney." "Lets just wait this out." "This is just a bad run for me."
Those could be true. Some luck just, fails to hit.
With the idea of winning in mind;
"I could've played that better." "Why didn't I see that before?" "What put me in this position?" "Should have I played that differently?"
At the end of the tourney, who's reaping more for the long run?
This comes from more of an amatuer aspect and a broad analysis seeing how I've never played it anything more than a 5,000 $ tourney, but to me lately. I've been more focused on simply winning, unless you're already in a position than you can't recover from at all, go for it.
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