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I don't like how Shimano wheels come with cup & cone bearings
There are good arguments for cup and cone being superior, and other manufacturer's only using cartridge bearings because they don't have the scale or facilities to make bearings so they outsource the capital intensive work.
gbj_tester-
A cup and cone bearing is a type of angular contact bearing, so smiliar wheels built with these hubs instead of radial bearings hubs will be stiffer and more predictable when cornering. But the trade off is the higher linear friction than a radial bearing because of the axially oriented contact angle.
Also just saying .. a loose cup and cone bearing allows for fairly slack manufacturing tolerances ..
user87951
Personally I don't like how Shimano wheels come with cup & cone bearings.
I'm using some cheap Prime wheels and they've been decent enough.
https://www.wiggle.co.uk/prime-peloton-road-wheelset-1/