I have read some people claim that the droplet size produced by a fogger is actually too small for the roots to absorb. It works for clones and young plants, but that is why we don’t see grows that are nothing but fogponics. There could be other environmental benefits to the root zone that make the fog beneficial, other than just delivering nutrients.
The concept of hybrid grow is interesting to me. Companies like to sell this system or that system without mentioning the ways they resemble each other. I like aeroponics, but after the misters cut off and the nutrient solution begins to run off, the aero is really nft as soon as the mist settles. In an aeroflo machine, which is confusingly referred to as nft, it functions similar to deep water culture as soon as there is more than a very shallow level of water in the tubes. The same concepts overlap in different techniques.
I have been kicking around the ides of a triple hybrid system: aero, then an nft surface under that, and finally a dwc underneath that for the roots to eventually grow down into. The mass of dwc water underneath would likely be most beneficial due to temperature regulation, especially connected to a chiller. That overcomes another disadvantage of aero in that air has no mass and does not hold cool temps in the time between mister cycles.