Originally Posted by
AnkleWork
If you could look at the universe in degrees of gray instead of advantage/disadvantage, black/white, good/bad, you would see much more complexity and most of your "why" questions would disappear. The authority figures you refer to mostly only see black and white and thus contradict themselves. Following such references only yields confusion.
Seek the "and" as in : hard anodized rims have both advantages and disadvantages.
You're right that things are often more complex than they are presented. I teach critical thinking to college students and try to focus on such issues.
However, from my understanding, there are zero advantages to hard-anodized rims aside from cosmetically hearkening back to an era when they were common because people (incorrectly) thought there were advantages.
I'm certainly open to revising my stance. My original question asked whether some of the disadvantages are less of an issue than was thought 10-20 years ago. Saying "the world has many shades of grey" (perhaps even 50) doesn't clear this up at all.