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Bikepacking bags are good because no one can get the time off work to go on a "fully loaded tour" so you might as well just take your recreational bike (which only gets ridden for 6 hours at a time and therefore needs no luggage carrying capacity) strap some bags to it and go on a little weekend trip. Take them off when you get home because you're only going to go out twice a year in that configuration. It would be annoying to have a rack on for the 363 days of the year that you won't be carrying anything, but also kind of annoying to detach and reattach it, because it'll eat into the 48 hour window of time you have for your 'trip'
Agreed that once you have to bolt something to your frame you might as well just buy an LHT and start an instagram account with the 🌍🚲 emoji in the bio.