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@anidel
As for everything, every needs has a bike to fulfil it.
For me new light bikes are good only if you want to race. Not for commuting, not for longer rides, no matter what anyway can tell me.
Newest steel bikes are great, but expensive (I think even more than what used to be when 531 was the top of the line)
Today, whenever a colleague/friend/relative asks me advice on a new bike, I'll point them to vintage steel bikes (if they want to compete, no one will come ask me advice anyway :)).
Advantages being that with the same price point of a new hybrid bike, you can get a great steel bike that will last forever, be more comfortable, cheaper to fix and they can fix themselves. And then I show my three steel bikes.
What happens though, is that many of them are lazy. And they simply keep going to a local shop get a new bike and hope for a trouble-free ride.
So far I managed to convince only my girlfriend and my dearest friend :)