Mass cuts obtained in this work (blue dots) compared with those obtained by WH07 (red squares) and C19 (green triangles) for the explosions of the WH07 progenitors. As expected, the mass cut correlates with compactness (except for one outlier from WH07). Notice that we find mass cuts that are larger than those of C19 and WH07, who instead find comparable values. The reason is that our explosions are triggered some time after the Si/O interface is accreted, whereas in the case of WH07 they force the explosion exactly at the location of the interface. C19 forces the explosion by increasing heavy-neutrino heating and, as a consequence, as soon as the Si/O interface crosses the shock, the explosion occurs much more quickly than in our simulations, and therefore mass accretion stops abruptly. The one outlier from WH07 has a mass cut close to the outer Si/O interface. However, an oxygen pocket is already present much closer to the inner core, hence the large difference with respect to our models.