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I can't speak for VSC because I've never really found myself in a situation where it was needed, and I've never found traction control to hinder my driving, but I will say that I absolutely hate ABS and wish it would go away. I owned two cars with no ABS before I bought one with ABS (my Legacy GT). On two occasions the ABS has nearly caused me to have an accident. I learned to modulate the brakes properly on my previous cars, and keep control under hard braking. So if you have to brake hard and you momentarily slip a little you just back off some and re-apply at slightly lower pressure and you're back on track. In the Legacy, once ABS activates there's no stopping it, even if you let off and try to modulate brake pressure, it just keeps sliding in whatever direction you were going, all the time you can feel the ABS pulsing. It's especially bad in snow. It will just start sliding and never stop. I have to be careful to never have ABS engage in the snow. If you think about it, pulsing the brakes only encourages further loss of traction, so why is this considered better? (The answer is because most people just freak out and mash the brake peddle and hold it, so ABS is better in that situation)
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