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Of course it's a compromise, people can ride what they want! 36H isn't unusual, and which you chose depends on:
Value to you of £1 worth of extra spokes.
Value to you of 25g weight saving.
Chance of having to spend time/money replacing spokes/rims/truing wheels.
Value of your time.
If I were 14st, I'd buy £1 of spokes and take the 25g hit now to avoid having to spend random time here and there in the future fixing stuff. In other words, the compromise is small and IMO the benefit is (relatively) larger (0.5hr of my time at £25 an hour, say is a lot more than £1!) :-)