Disc brakes are dead

First outing on my regular gravel loop yesterday. Quite muddy in sections. Few points:

1. I missed the suspension but i may have overinflated the front tyre
   
2. I did not miss it as much so that I want to keep going through the pain of servicing the fucking thing
   
3. Ideally this bike should be carbon; because steel is beneath me. Poverty material for a bicycle.
   
4. Lack of suspension meant that at some downhill sections I had a lot of sketchy moments, fine but wanted to record this for the history/culture
   
5. Did not miss/need the dropper
   
6. Brakes are amazing
   
7. Did not feel that I was knackered due to lack of suspension which might be because hand position of flared drops vs flat bars/risers
   
   

Now I want to take this bike to Bedgebury trails and see how it fares there.

Thanks for reading.