I suppose I wouldn't mind to pull from 3000 if I knew who put the engine together and what the specs were. An unknown engine from an unknown builder, with unknown or miscalculated compression ratios would scare me.
I dyno'd a Boss 9 engine down at Kaase's shop, and his dyno operator refused to start the pull from 2500 at my customer's request, just for the same reasons.
I don't see many people asking, "Wow, nice engine, how much power did it make at 2200?"
