When using excerpt, show the_excerpt, when excerpt is not set

When I’m selecting to show the excerpt instead of the text beginning, no text is shown, when no explicit user-supplied excerpt is set in the post. Wouldn’t it be better to fall back on get_the_excerpt from WP which creates an automatically generated word-counted trimmed-down version of the full post content?

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