Ok, I'll bite.
I am running naked bars on one of my bikes.
I'm trying a new setup, and before spending the money to buy tape and wrap them up, I want to make sure I like them. This is my first setup with an anatomic grip and its... weird, for me. If I don't end up keeping the bars on there, I don't want to have wasted a perfectly good roll of tape on bars I don't plan on using. It also doesn't have plugs. Sue me, its a beater.
Also, if I am running drop bars without hoods, I never tape tape the tops. When I grip there, I grip and pull backwards (think motorcycle throttle motion). If you wrapped them properly and so they tighten when you grip and turn your wrists outwards in the drops, it will do the opposite up top. It looks like **** and will start to loosen.
Running bars bare when you're just figuring stuff out is fine; keeping it that way after you're happy with them is whack.
There's a way to wrap tape around the brake levers so that the wrapping direction reverses itself and you have the bars wrapped correctly for how your hands are twisting the tape whether you're in the drops or hanging off the flats. It's a half figure 8 technique. Also allows you to ditch the cheater strip.