Well . . . I bet you know I'm going to come down on the side of the floats. I think there are very few situations where drift fishing will out fish the float but one is when you are in a boat and drifting along. I would agree that under those circumstances there is no good way to fish a float.

Remember though that you can bottom bounce with a float attached.

I do thin that all ethical anglers occasionally inadvertently floss a fish. But those of us fishing floats with out terminal gear up off the bottom and with reasonable length leaders don't floss many.

I was surprised at how many guy prefer to drift fish the worm. I wonder what percentage of those who prefer to drift fish the worm seldom or never use floats?