There must be some failure to communicate here.

In the hoods you cannot apply as much pressure on properly positioned and adjusted brake levers and you can when your hands are in the drops.

Secondly, in the drops, you certainly can apply more upper body strength to keep your weight aft and maximize braking (minimize endo tenancy) than you can in the hoods.

Hamster, if you truly believe that a fast descent is better done on the hoods than in the drops, please don't ride near me! ;-)