I don't want to argue your experience with the chain getting hungry, but there may be (must be?) a different explanation. The guide bar that rides on the cutter is set a fixed distance from the file, or if you will from the cutting edge of the cutter. All cutters on every chain I know get shorter toward the end, as in the top face of the cutter is inclined with the cutting face at the highest point. Some more than others, but still. As the cutter gets shorter the file/cutting face and the guide drop at a constant rate keeping the height between the cutting edge and the raker constant too.
It is not like the top surface of the cutter (that the guide slides over) is parabolic or something, resulting in an increase of cutting depth (raker setting).
At least, that's my perception of the mechanics of it. You may well be right in your observation that the cutting depth somehow gets more agresive toward the end of the cutter, but I don't see how the angle of incline on the cutter causes that, with how the 2-in-1 seems to work?! Or what am I missing?