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In reality you don't even have 22 gears.. Effectively it's more like 14 or 15 gears. So there's hardly a difference.
Especially when going from 50/34 + 11-28 cassette to a 44 + 10-42 cassette. The range is the same, you just have less parts to go wrong (and easier shifting)
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And bigger jumps between gears?
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See, I don't really buy the 'less parts to go wrong' argument. I mean, sure, it's true, but in all my years of riding bikes in a range of conditions I've had one front derailleur failure, when the bike fell over and landed awkwardly. And as @TurtleRecall says, you end up with big gaps between gears.
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Timmy2wheels
I got a 1x SRAM crank a while ago as I never used the smaller chainring, you're not going to be climbing mountain roads like you're in the TDF so you don't really need 22 gears