For kahawai and herring traces I will cut the dropper so it’s just a single strand because with the smaller hooks you can’t get the doubled line through the eye. Another thing you can do is twist the line opposite ways which makes the line twist together for a twisted dropper loop, advantages of that are it keeps the line together and standing away from the backbone of the trace. As for traces snapping at the droppers I’ve seen it happen several times for me and other people.
