When most people think of Carbide turning tools, they immediately think of a radius or square blade cutter. And I confess, I have a Woodchuck pen pro that has made thousands of pens. Wood pens just don't sell very well in the markets I choose to travel, so working with a variety of materials (aluminum, brass, stone, PR, etc) that tool just made sense.
BUT, I have a couple of Benjamin's Best $25 Carbide skews that I absolutely LOVE! I have some big name tools and yet, I tend to do the detail work with the BB $25 skew.
As I said earlier, both HSS and Carbide have their places in my shop. But lately the big, pretty HSS tools could be put in a shadow box to preserve them.