Many people would just as soon walk than actually use a 22/36 combo that only gets them 5mph at 90rpm cadence and 2.9 mph at 60rpm cadence.
You are still more efficient riding at this rate than walking!
I think some of us have reached the point of: The narcissism of small differences.
"The need to distinguish oneself by minute shadings and to insist with outsized militancy on the importance of those shadings." Freud