You're not the only one by any means.
I'm not most retro of retrobikers but I really don't see the weakness of V-brakes that means that no decent manufacturer is capable of putting bosses on forks any more. A couple of months back I took the plunge with cable discs when I had the chance of getting a nice set of disc wheels pretty cheap. The setup was XTR levers, Avid BB7s, a quality compressionless cable outers - about as good as it's supposed to get for cable discs. Even aware that they probably wouldn't be at the same level as a hydro setup, after hours of fitting, adjusting pad clearance, bedding in, truing discs etc, I was completely disappointed. 2 different pairs of brand new discs seemed to need constant truing with no more use than a test ride or two round the block, and the tolerances in the pad clearance seemed so marginal that they would just need constant readjustment to get a setup that was barely usable, let alone anything better. Personally I couldn't get the performance close to matching the level of XT/XTR V's or the higher end Avids, before even considering the amount of fiddling that would be required to do it compared to setting up V-brakes. And to boot, the whole set up was a fair bit heavier, with some of that carried in the rotating weight.
I would be happy enough just to continue bucking the trend with V-brakes on my bikes while there are plenty of decent quality second hand ones around in good condition (and even cheap ones work fine) but the fork manufacturers are the killer as the decent ones that still have bosses are far harder to come by in the second hand market as their lifespan is limited.
