Gimmicks roll downhill but quality is reserved... Just for example Deore and Tiagra are the price point where you got all-metal parts sufficiently plated, stainless, or anodized that their functional integrity were without question, and XT and Ultegra is where they were mostly aluminum forgings except where steel was required.
SRAM is better about differentiating their group levels. Every single part in the four levels from SX to XX is probably different enough to justify the change. Although there are some parts like the Power Spline BB that are hard to understand except as selling something worse just to charge more for the better thing. Shimano slices the baloney pretty fine. They presently show thirteen!!! groupset levels for MTB, though you could probably argue it's fewer with the overlaps and Saint is an outlier
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