Haimy,
You are asking a historical question. You’d need to find a written source discussing daf yomi from the 1920s. Do we have the text of Rav Meir Schapiro’s speech calling for Daf Yomi at Katowitz? Does he mention Rashi? Do we have kol koray’s from the period? In the 1980s by a siyum hashas the Kloysenberger Rebbe said one should learn Rashi and Tosfos! That sounds like a lot to me though.
I started the most recent cycle and it has been amazing. I do Artscroll. Some days I learn just Artscrol and some days Rashi inside too. As lowercourt says, Artscrol brings the Rashi’s on the bottom. You don’t know the future but my attitude is Baezres Hashem if I miss a Rashi or even a blatt I hope I still have 5 more cycles to build on what I learn now. Each cycle will get easier. And I know each day exactly what I have to learn that day.
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