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Why would that be a bigger concern with disc brakes than rim brakes?
The longer distance between caliper and hub would give more leverage to the bending forces and much more fork leg to bend.
And for the 70-102 mm of the fork leg where the disc brake forces work, I don’t think a curved fork is more bendy by design.
Where I see the problem is in the assymmetri of the disc brake working on only one fork leg causing whatever bending there is to influence on steering. Both straight and curved forks.