Pro-cycling thread

There is no other sector where they've moved to hydraulic disc brakes then gone back, as the performance is superior to existing braking systems. The manufacturers, who pay a lot of money to get teams on their bikes, want it, and consumers appear to want it too (take cx as an example, discs are used sparingly by the pros, but at a local league level the majority of riders are now on discs). Ultimately pros will have to adopt them, so the CPA (which is toothless) should either engage constructively or pipe down.

Cyclocross and MTB don't have the crash potential at speed that road racing does. Disc brakes make perfect sense there. Adding additional danger into a sport where multiple riders crash at speed into each other doesn't seem worth the trade off.

Manufacturers do indeed want disc brakes so they can sell gravel/adventure bikes to the general populace. As for the (majority) of consumers wanting it ? Difficult to tell really. Disc brake bikes are selling, but is that because they're being pushed by the industry ?
Using your Cyclocross example for instance, of the forty Cyclocross bikes listed on Evans, 38 have disc brakes. It's not a suprise therefore that amateur cross races are dominated by disc brakes.