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hippy
I kind of want a gravel bike because I rode on the road for years and years but just got really sick of the conflict. Being able to spin along the tarmac before heading onto a track strikes me as appealing. Would I choose the gravel bike over my hardtail? I think that depends, if I was doing my SDW loop that is half tarmac half bridleway then yes, and the light off-road routed that you can get too from SE London would probably be better on something with drops as you need to ride a certain amount of tarmac, although I will say that my experience in recent years is that you get far fewer close passes on an MTB, which I put down to bar width making your effective/perceived width much larger to a following motorist.
Ultimately a 150mm fork seems a bit much for a muddy field.