When I purchased my road bike ten years ago, a triple chainring seemed logical based on my age and type of riding I was doing. Like an earlier poster, I found that over the decade, I was using the "granny gear" less and less. I also started doing Senior Games racing, so I thought that a compact double as on my time-trial bike would be the way to go. That's the background and thinking behind the change. But as stated earlier, because of the Oak Hill beast of a hill (personal) and many other reasons as pointed out in this thread, I'm staying with the triple.
Tsapp