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Fitting a bigger tyre helps with comfort and traction. Often the gravel offerings in 45-50 are not great from a puncture prospecive. Ie the gravel king sk fares badly here https://www.bicyclerollingresistance.com/cx-gravel-reviews/panaracer-gravel-king-sk
Where as going to a mtb tyre like mezal you can get a TNT casing and a LOT better puncture protection, for basically no rolling resistance increase. But the mezcal 2.1 is 52mm. There is a massive void in decent tyres around the 50mm area.