I've said this before and I'll say it again. I don't like flippy shifters because I want to run a different brand hydraulic disc brake system. If you choose flippy shifters/hydros, you have to use Shimano discs.

Don't like Shimano discs, don't want flippy shifters.

I'm sure I could get used to the motion, but I guess I'm a bit of a retro-grouch when it comes to my shifters.

Plus, the lever breaking thing is a huge turn off for me. As a bike mechanic for nearly 20 years, I've seen my share of destroyed road bike shifter/levers. Very rarely are they repairable, they are simply replaced. This is a road bike which seldom encounters a direct hit. When roadies go down, the shifters are usually bend, scrapped or broken. If you crash a lot on a road bike you are doing something wrong.

This feature just doesn't satisfy my logical portion of my brain where a crash on a mountain bike is something I encounter almost EVERY ride. If I don't crash, I'm not pushing hard enough.