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I've really enjoyed them on long rides especially overnight, fireroad, singletrack, cowpath type stuff. I like how you can still get over the back wheel and hit a small drop and then turn around and do 40 miles on a dirt road.
But to each their own.
There's always somebody who says some version of a do-it-all bike is bad at everything. I frankly feel that way it about almost all bikes with 700x30-42c.
"drop bar MTB" are bad at everything, including being "one bike for everything"