There’s no such thing as all the bad news about carbon forks. They are used on a million bikes with no issues. Touring bikes with steel frames are likely to see steel forks because they are easy to install eyelets and rack mounts. If you have no eyelets and need them to mount a rack, by all means get a steel fork. I would get steel before I would use aluminum. No point in changing because of poor understanding of carbon forks,