Do you golf? Do you still use old style wooden drivers? The older drivers felt better and definitely sounded and felt better. The new technology allows me to go 40 yards farther and stay within the boundaries. Can you please explain to me how I will achieve less accurate shape with a LD type product? Preds/OBs do not come with guidance system.
That said alot of professional golfers are playing with blades, not oversized irons that simplify the game in a way similar to what a LD shaft does to pool.
Why do the pro's like Tiger stick to blades?
Because there is a tradeoff for the more demanding swing accuracy and a smaller sweetspot on the club. More feel and more capability to work the golf ball with a draw or fade.
For the hackers those oversized clubs are great, they have trouble enough keeping the ball in play and they do not play draws and fades, at least on purpose. They also don't get the butter sweet feel of a blade when you hit the sweet spot, they get the arm numbing jarring feedback of a blade when you miss the sweet spot, and the unwanted result of the golf ball going god knows where.
For the pros though, which is where this thread started off, those guys can control the more precise and demanding blades and make them do things on demand that are far more difficult, to impossible to do with a oversized iron.
It is not impossible to hit a fade or draw with an oversized club, just a whole lot harder, and you are going to get less return on a perfectly hit ball with the oversized iron then you will with a blade. That is why pros use the blades with better feel and control despite them being harder to hit accurately. They are getting control, a butter soft hit, and the ability to work the ball such that the easy to hit oversized iron does not allow.
Hitting a draw shot on a object ball 3 feet away and drawing back 2 feet for a window where you have about a 4 inch diameter to land or you are hooked, you want the control, the accuracy of the pot is not the critical issue. You want as much feel as you can get out of your shaft at that moment IF you are the type of player that relies on feel in their pool game.
As for you personally and how you may get worse shape with a LD shaft? I cannot claim that you yourself would, nor did I. I have no idea what kind of pool player you are. Some players are very technical and they play X amount of tip below center with Y speed stroke to get to Z. Some don't think like that, they play with a sense of feel and everything they do is subconsious. They hit the shot not thinking about where they are hitting the cueball or how hard, they are thinking about the spot they want the cueball to be and everything else is automatic and engrained in their heads because of the 10's of thousands of shots they have shot creating that muscle memory and subconsious cueball control.
You may be a technical style player. If so a predator is probably not going to affect you negatively on the shape play because you are not a feel player and you will simply get the added bonus of more accurate potting.
At the end of the day ALOT of pros use LD shafts and ALOT of pros don't. Those pros are going to do what works for them, someone who makes a living playing this game has likely used LD shafts at one time or another and they either decided they liked them and kept playing with them or they decided they did not and are playing with something different.