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)
Well no not really, if you go from 14 to 11 gears the jumps between gears only get a little bigger.. And if you're not crit racing I don't see the problem.
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)