Cropping corrected photos without using Scale?

I'm not sure if I'm doing this right, or there's a potential problem with ACR...
Take a wide angle raw photo with converging or diverging verticals, and apply a lens correction profile, then turn on the grid and straighten up the verticals, possibly applying a bit of Rotate while you're at it. Done? Right.
You'll notice that you may have lost quite a bit off the top or bottom of the image, depending on which way and how much you moved the sliders. To get it back again, I've been using Scale to shrink the image until I can see the image edge. A side effect of using Scale is that the opposite edge is now quite a way inside the canvas, and the processed image will have lost a lot of its original resolution.
Ideally, I'd like to be able to grab the image and centre it in the canvas, or hope ACR did this for me, so I don't need to shrink to see all edges. Am I missing something, or is this a 'feature' of Lens Correction?

Yes, except I'm already one step up from the default!
I submit many of my shots for stock, and I've always upsized my 12MP images by one step (43%) using ACR quite successfully. Fortunately, they've dropped their minimum requirements from 16MP to 8MP, so any seriously cropped images will now make the grade (but not necessarily the top shelf).
I wonder what the interpolation implications of a 2-step increase would be, considering that much of the image has already been downsized by the vertical distortion adjustment. Would the accuracy be maintained, or would detail be lost in the compression phase?
That's a rhetorical question, by the way, but please feel free to respond if you know the answer!

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