Carbon is not fashion. Bashing carbon for cred seems to be the bigger fashion point. Carbon is a perfectly valid material for building a hell of a lot of things, including forks. Riding a carbon fork hard daily is not asking for catastrophic failure - riding any component hard daily and not paying attention to its condition is. Carbon will not fail horribly without warning. Deep scratches, cracks, etc give you advance warning - things you pick up in particularly nasty scratches, the sort that would make me give any potentially damaged component close inspection whether it was carbon, steel, aluminum, titanium, phlogiston, or candle wax.

IOW, give it proper care and your carbon fork WILL NOT disintegrate beneath you.