I am still getting used to my disc brakes. I find them a little fiddly, and still have trouble getting them centered properly at times. They do stop well, and consistently in any weather, unlike the rim brakes. Still, rim brakes do the job fine, and you quickly figure out when the weather merits longer stopping distances.

But, when I had rim brakes on my commuter/tourer, which I rode daily in any kind of weather, I ended up wearing through a rim. Maybe 5 years is a good life span for a rim (I feel like that's about how old it was), but hub that came out of that rim went right into another wheel, so it wasn't done yet, just the rim. Now that I have disc brakes, I expect a much longer life out of wheels.