Samuel H
Major Contributor
That's the kind of photography that I like, and I think my method (loupe permanently on LCD, forget there's even an OVF in the camera) is perfect for that. It has downsides for different styles of shooting, as others have pointed out (I don't do fast shooting so I didn't even know about those problems).
I will also say that for this style of shooting I particularly like the sense that *I* am focusing, with my eye and my hand, with all the technology hidden away, relatively out of sight. It's similar to how using primes gives me a feeling of working to get the framing I want, whereas zooms let me be lazy and go with whatever is easiest and fastest.
The zoom-in for focus doesn't kill this feeling of empowerment; the red dot and beep, I haven't used them but I'm not so sure.