I don't miss shooting (hard to score that way in Judo anyway), but I do miss pickups. Te guruma either as a direct attack or a counter was a favorite. I think its illegality also makes hip throws too risk free; you can spam uchi mata all day and never worry about being picked up, that used to be a very real and dangerous risk if you didn't get good kuzushi. Much like how the ability to stall in turtle makes drop seio nage basically risk free.
To be honest, I find I like wrestling and BJJ TD scoring rules better. Regardless of who initiates, whoever ends up on top gets the points. Few things in combat sports seem sillier to me than rolled through throws where the thrower ends up on bottom and both guys stop fighting to look at the ref to see if ippon was scored. Most of the throws I love in pure Judo I don't use in BJJ and MMA just because of the high risk of giving up your back if you fail.
If you happened to watch the (boring) Bader-Davis fight, this exact thing happened to Bader when he attempted a harai type throw, missed it, and gave up his back. Davis was on top the rest of the round. When I MMA spar good Judo guys who rely on seio nage and uchi mata, I don't really fight the throws so much as control the finish to end up on top. It's a little sad how well that works. If those guys had had to worry about getting picked up or choked out their whole Judo careers, they'd probably be a lot less likely to attempt forward throws without proper positioning and kuzushi.
