If you use a non-lethal force option and then end up using deadly force, you might face the accusation that it wasn't a deadly force situation at all. After all, you wouldn't have used a non-lethal option in that case.
Of course its easy to change the hypothetical to make any point you want, but I can't think of a single situation where someone who used non-lethal force that did not end the threat could be twisted into an argument that lethal force was not necessary. Only the opposite could be true, it fully negates the argument that less than lethal force was necessary.
Speaking tactically, unless you have a lot of irritant gas that you can deploy quickly, I don't think you'd be able to deter a large angry mob that way.
Speaking tactically, I can tell you have never used large bear spray unit. It deploys long and large. The biggest problem is not contaminating yourself.
YMMV.
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