It is absolutely true that when Pirlo plays, he dictates the game. But you have to decide if it's in your team's best interest to have the game dictated by one player, who has to take 15 touches on the ball and does nothing defensively.
I would prefer no regista, just a DM that plays the ball first time and can move up and down with the play.
If you look at Bale's goal, Pirlo and Pogba are at the halfway line when the ball is played into Ronaldo who then plays to Bale. Pogba gives a decent, not even great effort to get back and he almost gets there. Pirlo is not even in the screen FFS. That is your DM. Maybe he could get there, maybe he couldn't, but FFS he's not even close. He never is.
And then people complain about the pace of our game. It's hard to press when your DM is that useless. It's hard to counter attack when your DM takes forever to release the ball. Has Pirlo ever succeeded in a fast-paced game? What is so mystifying about the correlation between Pirlo and our pace of play. If he dictates the game we will always play at a slow pace. Fact.