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>We do understand why Sharpe did it
Clearly not, since you follow this up by going:

>and in real life some well-trained troops could achieve 4 rounds a minute without this dumb fictional technique
Yes, after training more than a day. While regular loading has a higher fire rate compared to the invented technique in Sharpe, the point is that there's no time to properly train them to fire at that rate with the regular technique so he uses an easier to do but ultimately flawed technique to barely scrape through.
Fuck it, here's an MS paint diagram. Please note that the standard technique has a higher potential RoF, but a lower minimum range, while the meme technique caps earlier, but is easier to get to that point.

>We are pointing out that it's a work of fiction and that it was never done in real life.
This is the crux of the actual issue, and I'm pretty sure it was never a thing.