Yes, I was against them, because the only ones available at that time weren't beauty dishes, they were basically cheap octa softboxes of the totally wrong shape, fitted with a deflector in the wrong place 8 ribs sent the light off in a variety of different directions, none of which were forward.
In other words, they weren't beauty dishes at all, they were nothing more than dishonest marketing hype.
Then along came the Lencarta ones. More accurately, along came a very good but expensive American one that I happened to see, which gave me ideas, followed by the Lencarta one, and I (and others) put a lot of time into getting the shape, materials and focus right.
These pretend beauty dishes, sold under a variety of different names including a "Premium" and very expensive brand, are still around of course, and although there are now a number of 16-rib copies of the Lencarta one, looking at them (haven't tested any of them) I would say that they are still the wrong shape.