Goodbye sweetheart - farewell to a dead bike

like saddle it varies from person to person, some people are perfectly comfortable with a huge saddle to bar drop, some aren't.

But plenty are either putting up with unnecessary discomfort, or trying to make up for lack of reach by increasing drop, which is a poor compromise.

GA2G's bike isn't for pedalling a mahoosive gear on the track or in crits - where you're not carrying luggage, and unweight your contact points due to force exerted on the pedals. He's using the bike to nip around town. And he's very very old. The less craning of the neck the better in the long run.