Regarding just the issue of gloves: I used to ride with gloves because that's how I originally started in cycling. I always found gloves to be comfortable. Moving forward to modern day. (I'm ancient.) IMO newer bikes in most cases don't require gloves for comfort. With modern wraps and hood material you can stay comfortable in almost all instances. I do wear gloves long climbs as between my low speed and the length or time of the climb I sweat too much on the hoods and the grip is slippery. So for those climbs especially on warm or hot days I pull the gloves out and put them on.

One cosmetic benefit of riding without gloves is you have tanned hands and arms and not a big disparity. If you are of a light complexion wearing gloves produces beautiful tanned arms with white hands.