OP, you clearly live in an area where you could survive on a fixed gear.

I have a compact double and swap out cassettes based on the terrain I'm going to be riding. My preferred cassette is a 12-28 because the cogs from 12-17 are single tooth increments. If I'm tackling some steep hills I put the 11-32 on there but now I have bigger gaps all over the place. A triple would give me the best of both worlds - no big gaps in the gears and the low-low gear for the occasional nasty road, and no need to swap cassettes either.

11 speed... it's getting ridiculous, the NDS spokes are getting nearly vertical. Not much tension in there.