chrpai
Contributor
I think that this is part of why divers think BP/W have some magic to them, because here at SB so many people stopped sucking as divers and concentrating on being better divers, switched to BP/W at the same time so correlation leads them to assume cause and effect. Plenty of divers with fantastic neutral buoyancy and perfect trim dive in jackets. Far, far more than dive in BP/W, because there are far far more divers of all stripes diving in jackets.
I can blow that theory out of the water. I dove a jacket BCD for 10 years and while I became a good diver with good trim and buoyancy, I suffered it's shortcomings. I listened to the people claim (forcefully at times) how great a BP/W and ignored them just as you do.
When I got back into diving I decided to try a BP/W out. Much better then what I had. I didn't use gear to solve a skills problem and I didn't fix both problems at the same time.