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Re going from big to small chainring, maybe if you're on 50/34 or whatever, but the cross-standard 46/36 is a really nice way to quickly ramp up the cadence.
Aesthetically, I think the long-cage rear derailleur to single smallish chainring looks daft/ agricultural.
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I think that currently we have normal gearing where we do use the small ring regularly to get a good spread of gear and chain line.
With the huge cassette, the double can be changed a lots less as the small ring can be use as off-road/mountain, whether the big ring happily do normal road riding (46/36 fit this nicely with 10-42).
edscoble
The gear jump on the 11-42 are not too dissimilar to an old 5 speed block.
The middle is very usable, the bigger sprocket is useful as a bail out gear (feel less drastic than going from big to small chainring).
The only issues is that the 10t sprocket felt too hard when you only want to drop a single gear for a bit more oomph.