Come on, that's simply not true. There are plenty of occasions where mass modes are useful.
- If services go down and everyone is AFK and lose their modes you can reop/voice them all.
- Mass bans are obviously useful against bot floods.
- Mass unbans are useful when you want to clear the banlist, whether it's after a bot attack or just some 'Spring cleaning'.
There are probably another half-dozen reasons that it's way too early in the morning for me to think of right now, and even if there isn't three is more than enough. Channel takeovers are pretty much a thing of the past, virtually all networks have some form of channel services or channel ownership, and for those that don't then takeovers still require a certain amount of stupidity or misplaced trust in the channel's ops, quite frankly I'm not a huge sympathizer of the situation.
PastMaster: He'd only lag if he was sending literally several dozen mode changes. Most networks have a mode limit of 3-5, meaning it would take about 21-35 modes to even begin to become an issue. What he's suggesting means that more modes can be performed with less lag if the server allows it.
