Hah! Not at all. Just wasn't my personal preference back in the day. I like downtube braze ons for their versatility. With them you can mount bar cons, brifters, stem, or downtube shifters.
I've come to appreciate stem shifters more now. I just picked up a NOS Suntour 6 spd indexed stem shifter. The levers are simply bar-con levers. Hoping to see if a set of Ultegra 8 spd SIS bar cons will mount on there.