Not really. I have no idea whom I would even tell. Reducing weight is a huge performance improver. I did a backpacking trip in the 70s where we did X distance in one week. We returned the following year and did the same trip by kayak. The weather came up and we had to hike back for the car, coincidentally covering the same distance... in an afternoon. All we had were day packs, compared to the external frame loads we had carried the year before. Back then I enjoyed carrying the weight, but it was undeniable how fast we went in sneakers with a daypack. And we were both pretty average athletes at the time, nothing special. Then in 05 I got back into bike camping, and I had bad legs, and a heart condition. Carried the same gear people use to do UL backpacking today, not all of which was successful, but it made what some people regard as a big deal, bike touring, basically a wheelchair sport anyone could do.

If you look at the same period in Climbing what do we have? Radical reduction in the time to climb the Eiger, the Nose, Everest (without Oxygen), all due to the lightweight ethic. What most people fear the most about touring is probably climbing...

I do agree there is some difference on the need for weight reduction depending on mode. Canoe portages are pretty miserable with weight. I remember reading this thing about a guy who built 20 pound wood canoes and how he was doing portages in Algonquin park while in his 70s. But sure, a boat carries weight better than a back. But the other thing is what is ll this crap we bring actually for? Most of it, after the initial shock, will not be missed.

What I do think though, is that if you go bare bones, it is reasonable to have one or two luxuries. On one of my trips I took a hammock and a tarp tent. I prefer sleeping on the ground but a hammock is better in the deep woods, and one can sleep on cliffs, not dangerous monsters, but just sidings, the kind of space, often on rail trails, nobody is looking for a stealth camper. Twenty years down the road, since a lot of municipalities cut back on mowing, there are very dense with trees areas one can set up on in many town. So for me carrying two extremely light sleeping set-ups made sense, just so long as one doesn't double up on everything. So I would carry the stand if it was critical to my success. Like maybe no trees, but a lot safer in some places with nasty crawly things.