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miro_o
Personally I love the aesthetic of track ends. (In all honestly it was seeing people riding brakeless track bikes around London many years ago that got me into cycling.)
Forward facing drop outs make sense but I’m not a fan of the huge gap I would have to leave between my wheel and the guard at the BB bridge. If I need to remove my rear wheel, I simply unscrew the mudguard stays which takes about 10 seconds.
I have only ever seen someone flip their rear wheel twice, and each time that was during an audax going up the Cairngorms snow roads. I used to have two cogs fitted to my hub but I used the bigger so infrequently (maybe twice in three years) that I removed it.