Even Pete has cut down his axis rotation a lot.  Still appears to be well over 45 degrees, and among the most extreme out there, but way down.  Back in my day when, dinosaurs  ruled the earth, there simply was not enough friction on fresh conditions and we had to learn how to get the ball into a roll to minimize over skidding.  For almost the past 35 years there has been ample friction, to the point that you could put a lot of side roll on a ball and never worry about over skidding.  Indeed for anything less than historically high ball speeds the problem has been balls burning off energy too early, even when they have changed direction enough to create seemingly good entry angle.  Going back to my original post, the pocket 7-10 is the best example of what I am talking about.  It was almost never seen prior to urethane lane finishes and the soft plastic balls.  it results when a ball comes out of a skid relatively late, makes a fairly strong change of direction, but has no rotational energy left when it hits the pocket.  Strong entry angle changes, but does not reduce the deflection.  Ball deflects, but still catches the 5 pin. You get a flat 10 on one side, and a blowout 7 on the other side because the 5 didn't get hit hard enough to get to the 7.  In the very old days when a ball had enough rotational energy to create good entry angle, there was enough energy left to hit the 5 harder and get it over to the seven.  It wasn't the entry angle the helped the carry, but the remaining energy still being released to minimize deflection.