the spiel on competitive cyclist is full of crap: loaded with marketing buzzwords and often contradictory opinions. ride whatever you feel like is the most comfortable. if you read their review on the 3T rotundo, you'll find they have now left out everything "bad" about classic bars & are now hyping how all the pros use it.

fwiw, i'm going from anatomic (ritchey wcs logic) to a shallow-drop classic (ritchey wcs classic), both, of course, in aluminum