I ride with drop bars, but I never actually ride in the drops. The most I ever do is lean my palm on the bottom to use the bar end shifters. I have cross levers on the top, so I either ride with my hands on the straight part with the cross levers, on the brake hoods, or on the curved part between with my palms facing inward. I never really thought about switching to something else, but those Salsa Woodchippers look interesting. It seems like the drop is shallow enough and flared enough that you could almost use them like an H bar. Although it looks like the flare would make it annoying to lean your bike up against something.