I agree female studies are flawed because crashed E2 is what I would consider a sadistic long term treatment plan for women as it sets off a set of health problems that are too long to list, just so they can technically survive breast cancer as their quality of life nose dives.
Women studies are obviously too extreme to use for anything other than an indictment against the cancer treatment industry that is obsessed with long term care for longer term profits.
As for men, of course you don't want high E2, it obviously isn't optimal for men and occasional use of moderate AI to control times when you know E2 is gonna elevate and cause side effects would be prudent.
And I'll agree DHT derivatives do come with risks and I have had those things happen to me.....poor lipids, prostate growth(getting up 3 times a night to go to the bathroom), elevated blood pressure, faster rise in hct.
I guess do what you have to do, Aromasin was my choice when I was using AI as it had the least known side effect profile. That said even lower doses for me made me feel like crap mentally, I felt flat in the gym, lost motivation. I find there are lots of ancillaries that I can't take without sides that I don't want to deal with.
For me it goes back to the more frequent doses to keep peaks low to prevent spill over that ends up as too high E2.