great topic!
I’m currently running 34-50 cranks paired with 11-34 cassete on my gravel bike and I’m planning on converting it to 1x system with a mullet sram axs groupset. the new AXS rival make it more affordable… same with the Sram GX1 Eagle AXS rear derraiileur.
my initial plan was to put a 46T wolf chainring, but I’ve now decided to use 44T instead. tbh I’m thorn between 42T and 44T chainring 
. on my road bike I’m running 36-52, which I haven’t made up my mind yet if I should switch to 1x too.