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Not that it's actually much help, but does illustrate why longer bikes with steeper seat tubes still climb well with stubby stems.
Fundamentally you're riding a bike adapted from a cross-country chassis, so you need to pay more attention to getting your weight forward because you don't have the long and low stem to do it for you, and the SMP puts you further back and gives you less useable nose than a typical MTB saddle.
The upside is you're probably comfier on longer traversing stuff.