Yeah, My way belay is a Super 8 or an ATC guide. I guess if I were going down fast I’d want an ATC so I drag that rope into the teeth....maybe. LOL
WTF do I know?
I don’t know what that stuff is, but I see things in movies that sure looks a lot safer than cutting 8 feet of rope and wrapping your swiss seat and hooking your carabiner to it and taking off while hovering from a 100 feet.
On the other hand, it is cheap and light.
I was once disturbed to see a jumbled pile of old ropes laying on a floor in an Army office that we hadn’t used for STABO for many months but would be using again soon, guys just walking around it, it wasn’t coiled or protected, I asked if it was inspected before we did STABOs and the guy said he didn’t know, that bothered me.