Yup. I worked as a shop mechanic when the most common brakes were Weinmann, Dia Compe, and MAFAC. Shimano brakes were rare then. MAFAC annoyed me but I did so many of them I could probably do them blind now. All the criticisms are fair but now that my fingers remember, I like them a lot.

We could drift onto the topic of levers. MAFAC levers seem to favor big hands. Lucky I have big hands. And they're not too comfortable, so there's that. But the attachment method -- a bolt sticking out of the band -- is much reliabler than the Weinmann way of a weird-shaped nut attached to the band. Campagnolo and Shimano smartly chose the MAFAC way.