Component (un) reliability is nothing new. Granted the brifters are more complex devices, but there was a time when Campy RDs were poo-pooed for performance/reliability, even as simple as they were. Likewise with Simplex plastic RDs.
Electronic shifting? YGTBSM. Don’t see the appeal. Disc brakes? I’m on the fence with that.
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