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All a bit tedious, no? Electronic vs Mechanical is just this years Campag vs Shimano.
Some people are going to love it, some people won't.
I prefer levers to buttons, I prefer mechanical things to electronic things, I like to ride stuff into the ground, then replace it. I also like cheap things (because bikes break sometimes), so yeah - I'm happy to mop up the lightly used mechanical groupsets all you early adopters are shedding, for 50% of their value.
One thing to note is that by all accounts a lot of pro's are unhappy with the performance and reliability of electronic groupsets. Granted, I will never put a groupset through even 90% of what your average domestique could - but the the fact that people who are paid extremely well to ride certain things are still refusing to ride them is enough for me to say "let's see where things are in 3-4 years". At the moment, it's just another marketing stick for the bike industry to beat us with: *"What's that, you want di2?! Great, but you're going to need a new frame too..." *