Well if your a purist, wouldn't you be running ballistic pattern with retracts, and .60's on a tuned pipe with an old school non-computerized radio? Because if you are flying a computer radio, then you have programming that is in fact flying that plane for you. You have ETA, and your servo throw controls, you have digital subtrims, you have flight modes and mixes. Not many guys flying high dollar planes these days are purists in the true sense of the word here, just saying. I'm all for allowing the gyro. What do you tell the guy like me that flies Graupner MZ-24 Pro radio with the gyro built into my receiver? I can't fly at your contest?
You still have to fly the maneuver regardless. It would make you smoother and accommodate the wind, but you still have 90 % of the other aspects?