When I had my cheap mountain bike I was the same way, I never used the small ring either. Now I have 2 bikes with doubles and I love it... SOOOO much easier to tune. I like the simplicity of 1x but hate the large jumps between cogs that it demands to still have the range of 2x. As someone else mentioned, I don't think 1x really lives up to the hype. For cyclocross and mtb it makes sense because you're less likely to drop a chain but not so much for road bikes.