Oh, I agree for sure. P drivers in the woods isn't exactly ideal. And one really hard tree impact can change that flight, which is frustrating. It happened to me today, haha.
I've fought with myself back and forth about it for some time. : ) but I can't imagine what other disc I'd use. A valk, probably.
I don't think it matters whether you use a leopard, cheetah, gazelle, leopard, TL, beat teebird, valkyrie, viking, beat thunderbird, FD, PPD, beat PD, XL, mantis, beat avenger, trilogy equivalents, MVP equivalents, and so on, and so on. If it's relatively a "fairway" and it's easy to throw straight they all give me the exact same score.
It's obsessive compulsive to minimize your discs and even more so your molds, so if it satisfies you in some way than minimize your molds because it will satisfy you and accomplish the same scores right? For me I love to have less total discs at the moment, but minimizing molds isn't important to me at all so it's a non issue for my personality. I have fun throwing only one brand of discs, but not for a serious nor strategic reason. I do it because I know I would shoot the same with any one brand or every brands so I just picked my favorite. I find it very satisfying, to the point of multi year disc boredom really. I'm fine with that, I don't miss focusing on and thinking about discs.