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I would suspect that had fluid pressed steel barrels been in use during the time that the modern progressive burning powders were developed and put on the market, there would likely have been a lot of blown fluid steel barrels... and what would the gunmakers have blamed it on then???
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Parker Bros. had been offering "Modern" steel barrels for a quarter of a century when progressive burning smokeless powders shotgun shells were introduced with Western Cartridge Co.'s Super-X loads in 1922. Union Metallic Cartridge Co. began offering factory loaded smokeless powder shells in 1891, and Winchester a couple of years later.
The interruption of supplies of tubes from Europe by WW-I was probably the primary cause for the demise of Damascus barrels. Our thrift Yankee gunmakers never threw anything away!! We've seen examples of Ithaca guns marked as steel barrels that when refinished had one or both tubes of Damascus or Twist, yet nobody cried the dangers of Damascus louder then Lou Smith!!