Riiiiight up until they modulate in...and decidestay there. The hate is coming from a place of reliability, rather than use. Also, with internal routing it gets super old REALLY fast; having to pull a dot fluid filled line through your frame (which is a pretty shitty job in general, regardless of brake fluid being used) but that's kind of the cherry on top that it can kill some paintwork in the process.
Anyone who spills DOT fluid on their paint and leaves it there without rinsing deserves to have fucked up paint.
Hope also use DOT fluid, as do all motos and cars. It's not a big deal if you treat it as corrosive and take precautions.
Some people are lazy, as well as being sheep and unable to form their own opinions regarding what's cool aid or not.
The original pre 2016 guides had issues with sticky levers, but they have held their hand up and are replacing them under warranty.
I've got a set of Guide RS on my Canyon. I fired in a set of sintered pads and they have been flawless.
There is no doubting that Shimano have had a better track record regarding reliability, but the also make shitty brakes too (M8000 are junk).
But there is also no doubting that SRAM brakes have better modulation and feedback than Shimano.
Some people like that feeling (me included), and bleeding a set of brakes takes me 20mins.
I for one, would have Sram over Shimano all day. Non specific lever sides, 4 pot power, nicely shaped levers and heaps of feel and feedback.
Haters gonna hate.....
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