I used to get teased unmercifully on the angle of my drop bars (not flared much, but Randonneur) and the height/angle of the levers in the 1980s.

i always had the drops about 20* above the horizontal or so, and the levers higher up on the curve.

I always felt dialed in...never neck and wrist issues... Imagine if we had the choices back then we do now...