People whine about rim brakes. I think most of it is BS (Unless you are racing - and I agree Hydro is very nice). Except for snow. Rim brakes and snow - that worries me (from experience).
Heck, I did my last race with fenders. Makes it easy to find me in the post race pictures, lol.
and I haden't even read Heine's latest fender myth article:
https://janheine.wordpress.com/2018/...slow-you-down/