You never want it to stand out, you just want everything to look balanced.
A slight amount of hanging looks like it's not hanging at all -- it just looks right. The same way the top and bottom of an 'O' are higher/lower than the top and bottom of an 'X', even though it doesn't look like it.
It's all about visual weight -- how the eye perceives it.
Fully hanging punctuation is just way overdoing it.
https://typography.guru/uploads/monthly_2020_01/overshoot.th...
Or this:
https://ilovetypography.com/img/2015/03/Caslon-overshoot-500...
Or this:
https://ktla.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/06/GettyIma...
Or this:
https://live.staticflickr.com/5300/5482446696_1fa1ff2b45_b.j...
Hideous.
Try to follow that baseline with your eye. It's a roller coaster of chaos.
Type designers like to add overshoots merely out of habit, not aesthetics. They might have made sense in the lead type era, but simply look like mistakes today.
Please show me an example of type that looks more _uniformly sized_ with overshoots than without, and I'll agree with you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabel_(typeface)#/media/File:K... https://www.freefonts.io/kabel-font-free/
Are you thinking of a different typeface?
Sorry for the late response. I didn't see your reply.