Originally Posted by
Andy Somnifac
And cars used to have crank starts and manual choke controls. That doesn't mean I expect people comfortable with current technology to know how to properly use them.
Either a bike is a bike, and things like the technology going into the shifting mechanism don't matter, or that evolving technology is part of the bike. It can't be both ways.
No one is disagreeing with you that brifters are better. That was not the OP's question.