I can see why someone unfamiliar with Rocs wouldn't understand liking to cycle them, because when I first started throwing Rocs, I thought they were very uncomfortable in the hand. But the more I stuck with them, and started to get the "cycle" going, the more I started to love the way a Roc flies, and how versatile they are for line shaping.
But, to each their own. There are a lot of great midranges out there today.
Very true, what you say there.
IMHO cycling is just fine, and there are some positives to it, such as having that same familiar mold in one's grip when throwing the disc.
For me, I have two issues with cycling: first is that if one loses a disc in the cycle, especially one that has been seasoned in for a long time, then it's not easy to just go and get a replacement; one has to work to get a replacement seasoned in.
My second issue, related to the first, is that I vastly prefer premium plastics to DX plastic. I like Gold Line and Star, and Champion has become a better friend for me as I've gone along. GL wears in slightly faster than Star, which takes a good while.
I have yet to break in a Champion disc: my Pink Panther, which is more OS than my blue Panther and Panthers in general, remains true to its slightly OS form despite being thrown on spike hyzers and crashing into the ground, crashing hard into trees, and sometimes being thrown into the chains on putts. And this is after nearly a year of service on this one disc...
So for me, the time it takes to wear in a disc is so long, cycling doesn't even come in to the picture (except for in-the-circle putters in baseline plastic). I spend two years getting a Star Roc3 beat into understability, then it goes into a lake and bye-bye... that is just too sad a thought for me to put into actual practice...
Last, but not least: the Roc3 (and other Rocs, I'm sure) is a fantastic disc, but the grip has never been comfortable for me. I throw it because it works; comfort in all but putting is secondary. Having said that, my VCobra is
much more comfortable in my paw and does what I need for straight shots; ergo, why not use it?
Again, nothing wrong with cycling for those who do it and like to do it, but my own way (so far) is to find molds to suit the shots I need, then get those discs in high-quality premium plastics and go with them for the long-term.