Yep ... that was my point. Otherwise ... for me, index shifting is nice, but not a game changer. I know people who have told me otherwise, though. For them, index shifting truly was a game changer. They've actually told me that the availability of index shifting is what brought them to cycling.

Someone brought up a point here that piqued my interest. As I've said, I am not a fan of disc brakes. The benefits they offer aren't really relevant to me and those benefits come at a cost I'm not willing to pay. But I'll say this ... one advance that would be huge would be some sort of antilock and/or automatic brake proportioning system. And that ain't gonna happen with standard cable driven rim brakes.