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Before you think shotgun try this...take a broom handle in two hands like a shotgun, turn a sharp corner without poking the barrel end around first, then try for target acquisition in the dark. You lose time. And you lose accuracy. If you turn the corner ready to fire and the bad guy is just inside the room you stand a real chance of wrestling for and maybe losing the gun.

I agree that the longer and heavier a gun is, the more difficult it is to maneuver. On the other hand, if something like the Mossberg 590 series is such a poor choice of weaponry, why does every police department and military special forces unit* in this country outfit their personnel with the 590? They do so because they know that when TSHTF, it is the cheapest, most effective tool to maximize the probability that their boys aren't the ones who go home in body bags.

[* or at least they did, until Benelli won the new contract with a gun that's not available to the general public]

All my posts on this thread differentiate between trained law enforcement//military and the average homeowner. Without the proper level of training and maintenance these weapons are simply not the best choice in home defense situations. The pros recognize this, that is why SWAT training is selective and extensive.