[...]here is the kicker, the more they have to work the faster they wear. The worst example is say you are preparing to shift without the clutch and you start to put pressure on the shifter but you are still on the throttle for period of time before you drop the throttle back and the bike upshifts. All the time you have pressure on the shifter those dogs are wearing. I will ask one question, would you treat your brakes in this fashion?
No, but I don't treat my transmission in that fashion, either. One shouldn't clutchless upshift while still on the throttle, and should start pushing on the shifter until the it the correct time/rev to shift. And under those PROPER conditions, it should cause no more wear than using the clutch. Theoretically, it should produce less wear in total, because there is no wear on the clutch...