I don't know why I am weighing in on this now (and many of you will probably roll their eyes and ask the same thing
). My experience has followed the old motocross axiom: "The faster you can stop, the faster you can go." So, better braking power
will (once you hone the art of using it) eventually make you a faster rider. Then modulation is easily achieved by the number of fingers on the lever. If you have REAL powerful brakes, you can afford the luxury of one-fingering them.