I've read the same stuff that bib shorts were the best, not sure why because if you look at one model made by the same company they have the same padding as a particular model in a short! There is a lot of nonsense on the bicycle market that's all about generating sales. Even the nonsense that disk brakes are better than rim brakes even on dry surfaces is pure BS, it doesn't matter what kind of brakes you have it boils down to tire adhesion to the road surface. If you had a robot that could ride a bike and had one on a disk equipped bike and another on a identical rim equipped bike they both would stop the bike in the same distance. There are of course some things that are better like tires for example, in the last 10 years tires have made huge forward progress. But in clothing, well...look guys, I use to live in the Mojave Desert area of California and I rode a bike quite a bit out there, and it was hot a lot of times, yet I found a $12 jersey to perform BETTER than a $130 jersey! All my "cheap" jerseys, except the $12 one, perform the same as high end ones, the $12 one performs better; the same is true for socks as well.