You should be OK if the leaves are chopped up finely enough. Could you put a mulch plate on to ensure the leaves spend more time in contact with the mower blades? I ditched my bagging system years ago and installed a mulch kit on my mower and it does just fine.

It is a craftsmen lawn vacuum. its designed to grind up the leaves. its not a mower per se. im using the chute vs using the bag

How new is your yard. With decades old lawns, sometime the build up starts burying things like sidewalks etc. If so you may wish to remove them from the yard. If it is a new yard, then mulch them into the yard. If there are places where the mulch is obvious, use your leaf blower to spread it out.

sWe moved here about 14 years ago, and most of the half acre yard was clay. About a third of the 3/4 acre has mature sweet gums, oaks, and wing elms. I have been mulching the leaves, and leaving some leaves on the yard, and the rest of the flower beds. There is now decent soil in the flower beds, and I am getting decent soil in the yard

We have a bunch of big leaf bags, which we empty the leaf vac into. Then, we shove them into our Subaru, with the back seats down. We empty the leaf bags at the dump. You need something like a Durasack, with a large opening, so you can empty the leaf bin.

We also compost some leaves --- the compost down to about 1/3 the size of loose leaves and are a good soil amendment. We also blow some leaves into the garden, which we clean up in the spring.

So, you may find with a mix of ideas, you get your leaves to a manageable level. We have too many to just leave them.