Yup. Stopping is more work than a lot of people acknowledge. So is overcoming complete inertia, especially when working against gravity. Quite often, the first few meters from a stop at an intersection are up a ramp to the crown of the road being crossed - another thing a lot of people seem to forget. I'm always shaking my head at the folks who won't switch to a lower gear before crossing a highway from a stop. Maybe 5% of the guys who stay in a relatively high gear can and will crank up the torque sufficiently, but all the others are always creeping across, struggling and all out of the saddle just to get started. Are they trying to conserve their shift cables or something?