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Currently with internal hubs, you need to resist pedalling in order to shift gear, the opposite of what you'd do to a bicycle with a derailleur.
This can be annoying when you don't want to stop pedalling while ascending for example, of course practise make perfect but still nagging.
The electronic alfine will shift it properly without requiring you to resist pedalling, the other factor is that there's only one drop bar shifter for the Alfine, and it's shit, even the old Sora shifter perform better than the Versa one, you can't brake properly on the Versa due to it's being so incredibly spongy with disc.
I welcome it. I would like a drop bar road bike with Alfine Di2, having said that I'm still quite happy with my cheap mix of Sora/XT/Deore groupset on my CX that still perform flawlessly, I just need to replaced the chain every 1,500-2,000 miles.