You can live with it but your engine can't, NEVER NEVER NEVER use compressed air to blow out an air filter, you only tear the media and allow more dirt to be ingested into the motor. I always tell my customers that if you would not put that air filter to your mouth and suck air why would you force your engine to do the same.
Yes this is true, but if you read his msg he says he has the HD double element, and there is no prefilter wrap like you are thinking of this has a smaller micron filter that gets installed first in the a/f housing and then the main filter is installed over it.
