nah, I'm not carrying on any kind of war, but I've watched this topic discussed from a distance several times before, so I thought I'd weigh in with my experiences. I've been in or around pattern since I was 8 years old. My family has been into pattern for years before that, long before the advent of computer mixes. We were blessed enough to have one of the worlds top flyers in our club in the late seventies and early eighties so we got to see what talent was all about. This was back long before the days of the aerobatic "box", so the point rolls could be long, and my dad loves to tell the stories about Dave Brown (our current AMA pres) stretching point rolls from one side of the field to the other straight as an arrow. So if you'd love to see today's best use their "flying skills" and not their "programming skills", I doubt it would look much different. The analogy here is much like Paul Bunyon, why use an axe when you can use a chainsaw?
It's really that simple. If you want to learn how to do it without cpu radios, more power too you, it will improve you coordination, I'm not bad mouthing that by any means. That's how I learned, and I can still do a pretty darn good 4 or 8 pointer without any mixes, but it's not illegal, thus it's not cheating, so why not take advantage of the technology. Otherwise I would have never stepped above my old JR Century7 that I used in competition for years.