Comparison of M_CO-based CCSN recipes for binary population synthesis (F12, MM20, M20, PS20, and ours) with 3D CCSN simulation outcomes (from the archives of the Garching and Monash groups) and with SN observations. The compact remnant type as predicted by the recipes – either a NS, a fallback BH, or a direct BH – is color-coded as per the legend. For our recipe, we show the predictions for single stars and Case B donors, respectively, where for each progenitor type the upper stripe evaluates final fates at Z = Z_⊙ while the lower stripe those at Z = Z_⊙/10. The 3D CCSN simulation outcomes are shown only for progenitors with 2 ≤ M_CO/M_⊙ ≤ 18. The constraints on the M_CO range of the progenitors of the three most luminous Type IIP SNe (SN2009kr, SN2012ec and SN2009hd), of the failed SN candidates (N6946-BH1 and M31-2014-DS1), of the Type IIn SN (SN2010jl), and of the three most luminous Type IIb and Ib SNe (SN1993J, SN2016gkg, and SN2019yvr; including the re-estimation of their log L_pre-SN,obs from Gilkis & Arcavi (2022)) inferred in this work are plotted below. We also show our estimate of the M_CO ranges of the missing “red supergiant problem” and of the Type Ic SN2011bm progenitor, when assuming that its remnant is a 1.2 M_⊙ NS.