Looks like this issue of geometry will always a controversial one.
If the design is more complex and very time consuming then the end result must be worth its cost. In many ways we might be paying the price now for something that will come in the future.
Evolution in many cases has evolved through countless trials and failures in the realm of science. There are leading edge designers of cables that have been at this for 40 plus years and without them
our quality of cables would be much less today without their discoveries. Maybe they are getting close to the perfect cable?