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The number one reason for the existence of the G Line is that Brompton has a load of extremely loyal rich customers who the company struggles to extract money from once they've sold them One Brompton. It doesn't need to make sense, it needs to be different enough that they'll buy another one and interesting enough they'll pay a premium price.
People have been asking for bigger wheels and disc brakes since forever, so it's obvious thing to build.
If it accidentally attracts customers for whom disc brakes or bigger wheels are useful I suppose that's a bonus.