Hate shit pad holders, even you correct them "okay", then they do the same shit. We had a few and it messed up our fighters when they paid. Dude held pads like you were fighting 3 different people at once. come fight day, we're warming up with the coach, and every punch ends up missing due to reps in with shit holders. And lets not even get with kicks where because of shit holding trajectory you end up kicking upwards instead of inwards, and you end up hitting elbows. In that case, badwork is better, you end up hitting inwards all the time.
Padholding is an art, and its a workout as well when you're paired with someone. I remember having to do jab + middle kick, and slowed the tempo down because this one was too slow. My coach straight up said, kick him anyways, he'll have to learn to hold or he's gonna get hurt. And it worked, guy moved fast to meet the kick, and I was able to drill the right tempo. Its a 1,2 tempo, but before with his crap holding it ended up being bam, pause, bam and had me losing momentum, power, speed, and everything