A blade works best when there is some place for the snow to go off to the side. Once the banks get so deep, you can only push straight ahead, and that only works until the pile in front of the blade gets so big, then you're stuck.
At least with a bucket you can scoop some of that snow up and move it off to the side. Though a bucket naturally becomes a "V-plow" as the pile builds up in front of it and rounds off.
Here, East of Buffalo, we can sometimes get a foot or two feet of snow in a single snowfall. Trying to move that much snow with a blade, you better have a Cat D6 or larger behind it or you're not going anywhere. Sometimes all you can do is scoop and dump, scoop and dump.
The downside to a bucket is there's always snow dribbling off both sides once the bucket gets full, and final cleanup can be frustrating.
I bought one of those 8' box pushers last year and it worked okay but I could tell it is going to be a problem in heavy snow.
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