When does meal time get less chaotic?

Our baby is 9.5 months and definitely has his pincer grasp so we have started cutting his food into bite size pieces. He’s a great eater but and we were excited for the pincer grasp because we thought the days of messy fistfuls of food were over. But he still grabs all the bite size pieces by the handful and smashes it towards his mouth, dropping tons and making just as much of a mess as before! Were we wrong in thinking the pincer grasp makes things cleaner? Every meal ends in a full rinse down in the sink and a shirt change, and unfortunately we don’t have a dog to clean up the mess on the floor lol