Some of us like myself are professional builders. We make a modest amount of money and never want to jeopardize our business with any kind of unnecessary risk. Neither do we have the funds or time (which is the same as money) to go about testing something to find out where is the limit before something breaks. We are smart enough to realize that drilling holes in a fork weakens it and increases the possibility for it to fail. And if it does fail the consequences can be severe. In this era of everything can be online, all a potential customer has to hear is that a fork broke and they are lost as a customer. And if the builder is sued it is unlikely they will ever recover. It only makes sense to build in enough safety to insure nothing bad happens. So the sensible approach is to never do something like drill holes in forks.

in Albon's case he is taking the risk himself. He doesn't need to worry about marketing and the likelihood the fork will break isn't high so it might be worth the risk to him while it wouldn't be for us. One of the risk factors in the will-it-break formula is the wall thickness of the fork blades. They can vary from .9mm to 1.2mm. The thicker they are the less the chance of a catastrophe.