HRD showing an alternative outcome of the CE phase (cf. Fig. 4). We analyze our synthetic population in the context of the evolutionary models from Everson et al. (2024). We assess the outcome of the CE evolution based on the criteria described by Everson et al. (2024) and show systems predicted to have an intact core (light blue), disrupted core (purple), and those that eject the CE (dark blue). The data from Everson et al. (2024) are overplotted as the same symbols with black outlines. We show a 30 R_⊙ isoradial line, the cutoff for TETŻO formation, as a solid line (gray). The y-axes of the histograms are scaled by the number of observable SNe in the synthetic population (see Sect. 2.1.2 for more details).