Originally Posted by Maelochs

What you hate is bad maintenance, not a particular headset style.

I once removed a stuck bottom bracket---I used a breaker bar long enough to bend the handle on my ratchet. Eventually I won .... I took out the bottom bracket and the threads from the shell, but I got that BB out.

I'd have hated the idiot who let the BB get stuck .... if it hadn't had been me, many years earlier, before I knew better.