Originally Posted by
merlinextraligh
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Both Di2, and STI are not intuitive for new users. The same lever gives you an easier gear when it's on the left, and harder gear when it's on the right. There's no reason for that in a electronic group where you can program the buttons to do what you want.
People seem to be overlooking that you can program the Di2 buttons to do whatever you want using the e-Tube software. I would even expect a good LBS to do this for customers purchasing a new Di2 bike from them. So I don't see this as a criticism at all. The default configuration will be familiar to people who have used mechanical groupsets, but you can always change it if you want.
SRAM got that, and made the first group that, out of the box, really does not work in the same way as a mechanical group.
Different for the sake of being different is not always better. By going to only two shift buttons, they've dumbed the system down and actually made things more cumbersome in some situations. It's just fact that shifting between large/small chain ring
and getting the rear cog you want to go with the new chainring selection is going to be slower on eTap than it is on Di2.