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Yes Iโm all for the thing thatโs not a rear rack. Would buy :-) also secretly in love with packing things in small bags to go in larger bags so would skip larger bag if possible.
From experience it sucks to pack too much in one place(fork) and would like the possibility to spread things all over the bike. Havenโt entered the bladder game so main triangle is mostly occupied by bottles.
And a trailer would be able to fit so much more than a pannier.
Not everyone needs a double pannier's worth of stuff, and not everyone likes to have the bulk of weight on the rear wheel. I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that Fern's use of smaller bags on the rear triangle is intentional.