Of course, most of people here on DB agree with your stand that having a buddy is the most important issue. However, Searen, you have to realize that a blackout may be quite a traumatizing experience even if you have an excellent buddy who saves you without any big troubles. And even with quite good safeties, the blackout always represents certain risk, and may have also some physiological consequences (though that's being disputed about).
So regardless if we dive stupidly alone, or with 12 safety divers around us, we will want to avoid the blackout by any means anyway. And to avoid it, you have to understand why it happens. And that is the exact reason why you see all the attempts to bring some more light into this case. It has nothing to do with denial. We all know that the surveillance by a buddy is crucial, but we simply have to try understanding why it happened anyway. Every single freediver wants to avoid blacking out, even if he is in safe arms of a reliable buddy.
