No sense getting offended. I've been doing it as long as you so who cares? I'm doing it. I know others doing it. You couldn't do it.
That's why they make diaphram pressure plates and rag discs.
You have to use what you can make work. Doesn't mean the rest of us have to be stuck in the 1950's does it?
EDIT: there is no magic or unicorns involved. It's called science.