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Disc brakes make sense on all bikes, except for a very small number of special cases (pure climbing bikes and track bikes for example). It's really only fear of change that prevents universal adoption of a vastly superior brake technology for all bikes.
If they indeed are banned by the UCI, then it's a tragedy. That will delay disc brakes many years longer than necessary.
I would even go so far as to say that it should be LAW that all bikes operated on public streets/roads should be fitted with a disc front brake (minimum).