Contrary to popular opinion, the tournament tables in the 80's and 90's were not "buckets." We played the Sands Regency event on Rebco tables that had 4.5" pockets with deep shelves. The toughest tournament tables ever seen were the Peter Vitalie tables used at the Biltmore hotel in Los Angeles in 1987; 4" pockets with very deep shelves. Today's players would be crying if they had to play on them!
Like others here, I'm a proponent of winner breaks. It is exciting to see a player get on a roll and run some racks. That's what made Earl so hard to beat. He was constantly hitting people with five and six rack runs. What was equally as exciting was seeing a player come back from a large deficit with a few racks of their own strung together. That's when pro Pool was a real shootout. Kind of like bowlers needing to string strikes to win. And it's a lot harder to break and run a rack of 9-Ball then it is to make a strike.
There is no reason not to play winner breaks in Ten Ball! It's not easy to put racks together at this game, unless your name is Shane.