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I'm my experience, 5 minutes less time spent feeling sorry for yourself outside a boulanger is always going to get you much further up the road than going full ruthless weight weenie on everything you're carrying.
At the same time you don't want to be super aware you're carrying tons of pointless stuff over every last hill. I rode alongside someone on TPR who'd spent an hour in a post office shipping unused kit home to himself, I've seen people go on round the world trips with less