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Maybe Shimano are so confident that they've designed their hubs and calipers to avoid crashing the spokes into the calipers that the marginal bracing effect is worth going for.
If they wanted to improve the bracing angle, they would adopt the Boost110 "standard", 5mm more flange offset on the disc side is actually worth having.
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Yet (unless i'm being very dense and reading them backwards) the Shimano instructions specify spoke patterns what will see the woven crossing points move outwards under disc-braking forces for all except the drive-side rear.
I've heard it said that having outbound spokes take the braking forces gives the wheel a little more lateral strength under braking due to their slightly better bracing angle. Maybe Shimano are so confident that they've designed their hubs and calipers to avoid crashing the spokes into the calipers that the marginal bracing effect is worth going for. Whether that's still true when you bring other manufacturer's components into the mix is less clear.