Why does breaststroke get a bad rap?

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Other than it being "slow", what is with all the breaststroke haters? Just curious because I happen to think it's a beautifully powerful stroke.
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  • And, to everyone else's point, if you learned it in the 1970s, completely impossible to change. I learned to swim around 1974ish, all four strokes. I did nothing with it except summer or the off recreational swim, until I became active with a grad school swim group, triathlons, then masters swimming around 1995. I certainly wouldn't call myself an expert or master, but I can pretty much hold my own with ***, and my form is always evolving. It was by far the easiest of the strokes for me to be comfortable with in the water.
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  • And, to everyone else's point, if you learned it in the 1970s, completely impossible to change. I learned to swim around 1974ish, all four strokes. I did nothing with it except summer or the off recreational swim, until I became active with a grad school swim group, triathlons, then masters swimming around 1995. I certainly wouldn't call myself an expert or master, but I can pretty much hold my own with ***, and my form is always evolving. It was by far the easiest of the strokes for me to be comfortable with in the water.
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