Doing the same. But also keeping an additional xc bike for training and to act as an emergency back-up. And really hard to let go of my Trail bike.
Ah crap. Nevermind. 
The cost and time of maintenance adds up quickly for reals though.
An upside of TrainerRoad being so time efficient, is more hours to look after the fleet 
I think I’ve fallen into this belief myself. I started with a road bike (Specialized Tarmac) that was my first purchase when I got into cycling and I kind of rushed into it (no bike fitting or even measuring really).
Then I got a gravel bike (Canyon GRZL) because I was going to do a gravel event. But in the process realized that the fit of the canyon (it’s slightly smaller) suits me MUCH better. So now, most of my riding is not gravel so I’ve ended up just putting smaller tires on the Canyon and it’s fine.
My speed probably is not maximized but like you said I’m not really too worried about that (I don’t race or anything like that).
My first “gravel” bike was my aluminum Fuji Sportif that I dimpled the chainstays enough to fit 37’s. Never really felt the need for bigger tires and eventually bought a Domane that I still run 37’s on. Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to ride gravel on 45-50’s, but definitely not worth replacing the bike for the couple of gravel races I do a year.
99% of the people on this forum would do a better job as head of product at Shimano than whoever is not doing that job now.
Very likely not just a problem with the individual sitting in the Product chair, but rather a systemic/cultural issue that comes from the very top over many years. And with many dominant long time market leaders (like Shimano), being slow and deliberate is often a decent recipe for success (until it’s not). SRAM could have much better products for a long time before Shimano would be pushed out as a major OEM provider, so Shimano is going to be risk averse and follow the market rather than innovate (and not risk the expensive screw ups that tend to come with innovation). Not saying it’s right, but it’s a super common approach.
Even at the basic level of not building a power meter for XTR. At this point, shimano no longer offers a complete system. If you want to run a power meter you have to use a 3rd party crankset or pedals. And their road line is going down a similar path. I dont understand why they don’t better fund development.
They need to buy better. Maybe they should have waded in to the Stages bankruptcy and bought their IP. It seemed to work well, better than their current products.
Taking a long view I don’t really have a love affair for SRAM either. Being a guinea pig for 15 years of their product development is hard to get over. Until this launch this week they couldn’t produce a front derailleur that did not throw the chain off at least 2x per ride. I have a bunch of friends who rode their road stuff and they were unrivaled in being forced off the bike to re-thread their chain at least twice per every ride we did. No wonder SRAM wants to have everyone ride a 1X for all applications, you do that when you can’t make a front derailleur work. Hopefully they fixed it now. As far as power meters go I dont really care as I like Power2Max too much to ever ride anything else - they are bombproof and always work. We need healthy competition for groups, we already have the Great Trek Bike Making Company, we need to have some choices other than the SRAM/ RockShox / Zipp Cabal.
If you want to get faster you need to spend at least 15 hours a week maintaining your bikes.
I mean, why haven’t they just bought Assioma?
It’s my understanding they still have the biggest market share in the component business. 22% vs SRAM 18%. As long as they maintain that I see no need for them to acquire anyone. Not to mention bike components are not their only products.
Something in the water I guess. I guess my unpopular opinion is that tales of SRAM FD chain drops are widely overblown and a byproduct of poor setup. I ride both SRAM AXS and Shimano Di2 and I guess I’d give a slight nod to Shimano on FD performance, but they both work great and neither drops chains when set up properly. I guess we could fault SRAM for being less tolerant of sloppy setup (which is par for the course in many bike shops and with DIY mechanics), but all this stuff works great when set up right. SRAM is certainly more innovative (and has had more recalls/issues as you’d expect) and Shimano stuff just works (but is often not the stuff/features people want). My preference for off road riding/racing is strongly with SRAM because Shimano simply doesn’t have equivalent products (maybe the new wireless closes that gap a bit?). On the road, I can live with either, but have gravitated toward SRAM because of the interoperability and I think their gearing selection is smarter. Part of that is that most of my road riding is on a gravel bike these days and I like the ability to swap 1x to 2x along with RD/cassette combos in under 10 minutes. I’m still happy with Di2 on my road race bike, but it’s been mostly on trainer duty in recent years and I seldom have the need to change gearing.
Exposure to tariffs, the threat of moving the business here and losing their mojo. A lot of reasons, plus cost: I’m sure Assioma wouldn’t really see the need to be bought. So far… 
This story has played out in other industries as well. It’s very hard to turn it around if the old guard gets unseated. But when there is a proven product manufacturing and supply chain organization, the old guard is tough to unseat
I have to wonder about the possibility of user/config/tech error here.
I’ve only been riding for six years and I’m no expert… but on the many, many group rides I’ve been on and in my thousands of rides alone, I’ve had to stop and fix a dropped chain ONCE and have never yet seen it happen to others. (I’m slow, so I’m usually at the back of the pack and I’d have seen them.)
If SRAM was anywhere near that bad, I have to believe they’d have been put out of business a long time ago.
These kind if problems tell more about the clowns that have installed the components or are responsible for the maintenance than about the quality of the product.
If you dont wash your bike you dont need to spend 15 hours a week maintaining it because the grease stays where its supposed to and the mud holds the rest of it together.
I dont even think thats unpopular - STOP CLEANING YOUR BIKES PEOPLE!