I looked at some old flow #s for a pair of W2 heads that I have. At .550 they are flowing around 300 and pretty much steady to .650. Since the flow remains steady then the higher lift is keeping that flow going and making more HP, right? There is no drop off to hurt power, right?
The correct size valve, a proper valve job and some short turn and guide work will take all of that break over out until the test pressure gets to about 40ish inches of water. At that pressure, no matter what you do you'll get some break over.
Use a 2.100 valve (yes they fit in there) and you'll make the port not be able to feed that valve and the break over will move to a lower lift and make it not come back. Until you make the port square. That's a whole nother issue.
Like I said...I try and get as much lift as the valve gear will take in the reliability you expect. If you've done much testing with a flow bench and looked at areas of pressure differential, I'm not so sure that testing higher lifts at higher pressures is actually the best way to do it.
I have access to a Flow Data bench that will pull 60 inches on most heads and you can learn a bunch. But I'm not sure at .500 or more lift the port is actually seeing that much pressure drop.
I do some testing at 10 inches at say .800 lift and then test at lower lifts at 40ish and then change the test pressures and see what happens. It's not cut and dry always.
More lift is better as long as the valve train is correct.