Note the past tense of my statement. It WAs not for quite a while. It is now for many types of riding. I use both but the suspension more often due to the rooty trails around me(you can't pick a line around transverse roots). I was trying to agree with you about how far the tech has come.

I would really like to try that carbon fork as it might suck up enough to make a large potion of my rides tolerable.... it's probably way out of my price range anyway though.

Maybe I'm just not experienced with nicer EBBs but the ones I have used(tandem) would make adjusting the tension after flip-flopping too tedious to do multiple times each ride. Its not hard but its alot harder then flipping a wheel in track ends. Since a flip-flop precludes a disk the main advantage is lost anway. Noone makes a flipflip disk hub yet right? that would look pretty intense with rotors on each side... you could even do dual calipers too just to have that much more stopping power that would never get used.