Nascar, le mans, to name a couple.
Preference is all it is, safety in a lot of cases. I went out of my way to put power steering in my valiant, tti step headers and 3" pipes. If I have to swerve to miss hitting someone... I can....and maintain control. Manual cannot do what power steering can at any speed with as little effort. Run power or run manual steering, it shouldn't matter to anyone besides the owner/driver. If you you go straight line... you wont care if it's easy to turn or not. If you drive mostly on the street...power steering is helpful for all obstacles on the road. Hell.. you can pull the belt for a 1/4 mile if need be.
This is chest bump thread with a catalog from 1980 used as proof of veteran status ...or some kinda status. It bleeds through in all the op's post n reply. May as well go back 10 years ago when guys on here were saying.. "I'm older than you" . Age is no lock on brilliance/intelligence.
People bitching about power steering are no different than people bitching about header fitment... and just as lame people bichin about about a marketing phenomenon that started way before 1980. The gripe that Mopar guys have is the fact that we pay twice as much for the parts Chevy guys pay for and most of the time Chevy guys parts are bolt on and fit they don't need bracket changing and other bullshit. Chryslers have torsion bars and for headers it'll never be easy...fact is... working on a Dodge is easy ,for us "Mopar guys" because we've acclimated to all the bullshit we have to deal with ..lol..at the same time a lot of it is simple and even easier in some cases...non the less it can mean something else designed around that is going to be a pita. The suspension amongst other things, easy..but crowding for the headers. There are better designs and there are poor designs when you compare all of the big three.
What are we learning here, really..
