While I don't know the motive of the OP, the sentiment expressed is the one problem I have with crossbows. Because it looks kinda like a gun but it is aimed and fired like a gun, it enabled a lot of gun hunters who had no experience or skills with a vertical bow to jump into archery season.
But when it first started, I literally saw guys putting on drives, like they had their trusty Remington 760 (heaven forbid it would be an AR, but I digress).
Too many people don't (or at least didn't) understand that it is still "archery" hunting. Crossbows do not kill at any greater range than a high-end compound, especially something that can be held at full draw with 80%+ letoff. I think now more people who came into archery with vertical bows have switched, so it should be moving in the right direction. But there is (or was) an element of the crossbow crowd who did not seem to fully grasp the new up-close-and-personal paradigm in which they are hunting deer.
Very, very few people have any business taking a shot longer than 30 yards at any deer, with any type of bow. Unless you regularly practice wearing you full hunting garb, from your treestand or blind, in awkward body positions that you might find yourself in, then your effective distance from the nice, flat, controlled circumstances archery range should probably be cut in half for your effective hunting distance for shots.
Before anyone gets their tail feathers all ruffled up, there are very highly skilled archery hunters that can indeed make those longer shots. They are not the Average Dude. So if you are one of those in that skilled minority, great. But alas, I think that too many people think that they are part of that skilled minority when in fact they need some more work.
This year I am trying to take a doe with an open (iron) sighted .357 Blackhawk. I approach it like an archery hunt, I need them to be 30-35 yards or I am not taking the shot. It was as hard as I thought it would be, several seen that would be very reasonable rifle shots (maybe 100 yards) but no chance for a shot that is "ethical for my abilities".
Too many people already take shots with guns and bows that are well beyond their capabilities. The similarity of a crossbow to a gun in terms of handling and shooting is a very big enabler for thinking beyond one's abilities. That's the main thing. Hey, it's got a stock, and a trigger, and a scope, but it is not a centerfire rifle.