Of course. Theres always a problem with not doing it the way ones head has preordained it.
This study seems to imply that almost everyone will be dead before they'd get any benefit out of taking a larger payment later.
With regards to the first point, firecalc says that one gets the most out of their early retirement spending by taking the payments as early as possible. As has been determined 97,000 times in various discussions, and highlighted nicely in ESRBobs book, a little income stream helps an ER greatly. According to the data, a smaller stream early is better than a larger stream later.
About the only scenario floated so far to puncture that is the one where you blow all your money on fishing trips in your 50's and hope the later, higher SS payments bail you out if you live too long. Or the one where you dont care if you die with money on the table, because you're dead. And I thought this game was about getting the hell out of the working world and enjoying your life, not hoping you die before you run out of money.
This document appears to reduce the matter to the most contained calculations, while the aforementioned firecalc runs make it an integral part of the whole lifetime financial picture. Same answer both ways.
Which apparently is the wrong one if it isnt the one you've already decided on.
But then again, trillions of dollars and the best actuaries and financial minds available could all be wrong.