In praise of boxer-briefs

I ran across this article about the pre-eminence of boxer-briefs among men's underwear options in Slate. The author traces the arc of his underpants, which closely mirrors my own. I started with briefs, moved to boxers, and have comfortably settled in with boxer-briefs. Why? From the article:

Support. The obvious, yet oft-unspoken flaw with traditional boxers is their lack of cuppage. They are useless for athletic events, and can even be a hindrance. (An acquaintance refers to the "tunnel" created by wearing boxers under soccer shorts. Via this tunnel, one's testicles can gain sudden and direct access to the world outside.) Boxer briefs hold your goods in place and out of sight.

Stability. Traditional boxers never sit still. They are forever riding up above the waistband of your pants, or slipping down below it. That loose fabric tends to twist, and bunch, and wedgify. Constant realignments are required. (This is especially true with the "bubble-butt" cut of boxer, which uses a spinnaker-like central back panel. The idea is to avoid having any seams line up with the butt-crack, but all that extra cloth just crawls up in there anyway, to disastrous effect.)

Containment. That simple slit of a fly on traditional boxers encourages a phenomenon I will term "flop-out." Some boxer shorts seek to rectify this with a button enclosure, but a button is the last thing you care to deal with when you urgently need to urinate. Boxer briefs use the much more effective and user-friendly Y-front.

Also mentioned in the article was the strange trend in the preppie era to allow the legs of (usually plaid) boxers to "peek out" below the bottom of one's shorts. Although I'm sure I was guilty of this sartorial offense, now I see it as quite disturbing. Is that any better than the current trend among teen hipsters to reveal the tops of their drawers by wearing their trousers low?