I'm kind of glad that both of my cars doesn't have any ABS.
It makes no difference if someone stops suddenly in front of you if you have no way out and weather or not you have ABS or not, sure a wheel locks up when you break hard but if they don't give you enough time to stop or a means of escape to the left or to the right then who cares. I never go fast enough on main roads anyway to warrant needing ABS.
.. you give yourself time. You control following distance, not them.
ABS is useful at any speed above about 30mph, if you never go that fast.. you probably don't need a car at all.
a light brake pedal application to bring the car back into line can then turn into a hard braking action from the ABS system
No, that's not how ABS works.