They both certainly have their place. For me, I like the drop aways a little better these days. Especially one with arrow " holding" capabilities for hunting situations. But you are correct in your statement that a standard rest, if properly tuned will shoot as good as any drop away out there. In fact I see most competition archers shooting standard type rest. Right now, drop aways are a hot item. They address problems you may have with standard rest and let you get away with some things some times that conventional rest won' t let you do :example: arrow spine tolerances. But, drop aways introduce their own problems into the equation. More moving parts and linkages to go wrong.

Pick you poison.