The 22/32/44 will give you an excellent range of gearing... have often found that modern bicycles come geared too high for normal folks and have converted many a bike to similar set ups.

Nice thing about a compact triple is that you can often run a closer ranged rear cassette and improve the shifting off the back as well without giving up much in the low gear department.

I ran my Trek 7500 hybrid with a 22/32/44 and an 11-27 8 speed cassette which was far better than the stock 28/38/48 and the 11-34 cassette.

Gearing is often calculated using a gear inch system and you only have to understand that mountain and touring bicycles tend to have a low around 20 gear inches and racing bikes might have a high gear at 120 but this high gear is impossible to push unless you have a huge tailwind or like descending at 60 miles per hour.

Most fit riders and racers do most of their best work in the 90 gear inch range, while recreational riders and tourists work in the mid seventies.very few people can push more than 95 gear inches on flat ground for any distance

The 22/32/44 with the stock 11-32 gives a range of 17 gear inches at the bottom (it doesn't get much lower) and 108 at the top end.... the original set up gave you a range of 22-117 so the low gear was okay but can see how most of the top gearing was pretty much useless.

You might even consider swapping the rear cassette for an x-28 as it would still give you the same low gear you had with the original drivetrain and would make the gear steps smaller in the rear which makes for more efficient riding and smoother shifting.

Your bike shop should understand gear inch calculations...

The old rule was that recreational riders needed a 40-100 gear inch range for normal riding conditions, racers usually ran a 50-115, and mountain bikers and tourists (people who carry higher loads) would usually run in the 20-110 range.