My favourite outfit right at the moment is my Zillion on an MBR783c GL3 spooled with 20lb Nitlon, although very closely followed by my trusty old favourite of a JDM CVZ205 on a Live Fibre Blade spooled with 50lb Finns
The Zillion/Loomis combo is very sweet to use and casts placcies on worm hooks so well I don't even bother to break the Certate out for plastics! (hate flicking spool arms over - I am lazy)
The CVZ/Blade combo comes into it's own with the big Hardbodies and is sooo sweet to cast all day you just don't want to stop.
Third place probably goes to the old Calcutta 200b/Live Fibre which just will not die and is great to have as a backup and more often then not has a surface lure tied on for when it "feels right" to chuck one.
I agree re the lighter drag (generally speaking) it's a smarter way of fishing that means more fish to the boat. Although I still don't mind a full on game of tug of war every now and again (CVZ/Blade loves that game too)
Cheers
Tony