Is this something the kids these days are in to?

If the kids that would buy these bikes are looking for a 1x bike, and not buying them because they're 2x or 3x... then it makes sense to do 1x.

There's all kinds of people in this world. I was going thru some old threads and there was someone who thought unicrown forks were beautiful, sleek and cool and that lugged fork crowns were "ugly as hell."