Have you ever raced, wwaswas?
Not on the road but I’ve watched a few descents on the big stage races and I can’t see why you’d not want to use the most effective brake available.
This conversation feels like the disk versus V-brake arguments that Mtbers were having 10 years ago.
It’s all opinion and personal experience, GW rides everywhere on traffic free roads and never brakes, I ride in mixed conditions and find road brakes of dubious benefit descending steep hills in the wet.
Neither of us is particularly right or wrong other than about ourselves and what we want from a bike.
Yes pro riders often race what they’re given but their sponsors probably wouldn’t send them out on soemthign that was going to make them lose?