I think the Hybrid presents a rather unique situation. The Peaks have one, very specific drawback - they don't water relaunch with any degree of reliability. If you don't drop the kite, this is completely a non-factor. In the last year I seem to have settled into a pattern of dropping the kite about every 18th session. 18 sessions is a lot of kiting, so you start to completely discount the possibility of dropping the kite until ... it suddenly happens.
The drops are usually "severe" now, which is to say no possibility to quickly reverse launch. I have had zero success relaunching a waterlogged Peak. This may be largely because I haven't tried that hard. Controlling the board while dealing with the kite is very difficult and tiring. The prospect of rolling out the lines back out again while controlling the board & hoping that all will go well with the relaunch ... and if not rolling the lines back up etc. is pretty daunting. By the time I have rolled up the lines to the kite & messed around a bit trying to sort out the kite, I'm ready to give up and just swim/drift in. Younger Peak users may have a different experience!
It has to be said, that even with an LEI, or a double skin foil kite, it does happen that the kite is dropped in such a way that it is difficult, or impossible to relaunch. I'm very happy with the advantages offered by my Peaks and resigned to occasionally having to swim in. This does mean I'm a bit more cautious about how far from shore I go. Given the fact that I already have a full quiver of Peak4s and the Hybrids are so expensive, I think I will be sticking with the Peaks for the foreseeable future.