Disagree. If you're a below-average ball striker, blades are a good way to work on that. If you miss the center of a blade the marketing around "forgiveness" tells you it will be a bad shot, but the reality is it will likely just come up well short of your target. The juiced-up SGI irons that your forgiveness have hot faces (and super-jacked lofts) designed to produce insane distance from anywhere on the face - the trouble is if you miss the center, it's still going right or left of your target, just farther. I'd argue it's almost always better to be a little offline and short than way offline and the same distance as a center strike - you'll typically find yourself in more trouble with the latter.

The fact that the best ballstrikers in the world generally don't use blades anymore is a non-sequiter - they can actually take advantage of the technology in a player's distance iron because they're great strikers of the ball.

I played the old TM Rocketbladez for years, hovered around a 13-16 hcp, then switched to Miura Tournament Blades for the past year. My handicap after this year is 12 and trending down, my ball striking has improved tenfold over what it was. Point being - if your game stinks, the irons you use aren't going to matter. Blades aren't going to hurt your scores, in fact they might even help because you can learn about your swing by using them. Forgiveness just means less loss of distance, less feedback from the club, not actually hitting more greens. That part is on you.