I was thinking the same thing. The only people dissing discs are people who don't have them.

Honestly, i don't care much one way or the other, my bike is totally fugly and I don't even wash it much so I don't care what it looks like. I run discs because they work better. They're far easier to adjust, require adjusting much less often, work better in all conditions (including ice and heavy rain), are cheaper to maintain (after you buy them) and they don't destroy rims.

I have rim brakes still on the back of my bike and the rim is a bit over a year old and it looks like I'll have to replace it before next winter, it's already over 1/2 worn through. My ride is over quite a bit of gravel road (either 4 of 11 miles or 10 of 14 miles, depending on my route) and if it's raining, the entire bike including the rims and brakes get encrusted with clay/sand mix which makes excellent abrasive. It doesn't bother the disc brakes at all.