To answer your first question, of course the leader will break first, provided your knot is up to snuff. This is a good thing because you don't have to retie at the leader, which means you haven't wasted any of that precious braid. That might make me seem like a real tightwad, but I'm on a fixed income and my @$$#%!# puckers every time I clip the tag end of braid.
To me, the biggest advantage of braid is its limpness. It casts better and has absolutely no memory. When you've had fluoro on a reel for a while, it starts getting memory and every single coil in it after the cast detracts from the sensitivity. That's the game changer right there for me.
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