Stop “comfortizing” routes with bolted belays!

Multi pitch traditional routes are despoiled when unnecessary bolted belays are added with the bizarre notion of comfortizing them. One of the joys of such routes is using your judgement to decide where to stop and set up a belay. One of the prerequisites for a belay is the presence of places to put your belay anchors....bolted belays are rarely needed on traditional routes.
I have established hundreds of belays around the world over the past six decades, many of them on previously unclimbed ground, and have had to resort to hand drilled bolts for anchors exactly twice.
Bolted belays:
*scar the climb
*draw people to them and exacerbate the herd instinct in climbing
*create climber dependence
*deter learning opportunities for new climbers
*remove much of the exploratory aspect of climbing
*are almost never needed
One of the reasons I enjoy the Black Canyon so much is the almost complete absence of bolted belays.
A young climber asked me once...”how do you know where to belay if there isn’t a fixed belay?” Go figure!