Originally Posted by fantom1

You must have a lot of hipster bike bullies where you are. Socially acceptable has nothing to do with it I don't think. Tourers normally don't give a hoot about anything but practicality by nature anyhow.

Different bars work for different people- end of story right?

If those bars really were so much better, everyone would use them. They work better for you, great. For others like me, that doesn't offer as much variability vertically and I don't like that hand position to begin with.

There are functional reasons why certain things become popular. Keep in mind bike bars have been around for at least a hundred years in various forms.