Richard,
If you look back through the archives you will find a number of discussions about braid vs mainline. Many opinions from both camps, what I find with many questions on here nowadays is that many of the longer term members have done these discussions to death in the past so do not bother responding. In effect, what you have got is a small sample of the pro-braid camp responding, hardly a basis for the statement you make above!!
It would appear that the only reason you asked the question was because a club you are a member of has imposed a braid ban, is that correct? In which case, instead of asking the question, when it was clear from the original post that you were more interested in making your own opinion heard than listening to that of anyone else, you should have stated your grievance and asked opinions of that!!
For the record, I used Powerpro for my barbel fishing for about 4 years when feeder fishing, when I went back to fishing leads I found my results were poor, switched back to mono and they went up significantly. For that reason I stopped using Braid for Barbel fishing, I do pretty much use it for all my pike fishing, but use it in heavy BS, like 60 - 80lb to ensure the diameter is sufficiently high to avoid cheese wire type problems as much as possible.
I most certainly would not use it on a rocky river as it only has to look at a rock and it is severed, from experience.
