I’ve learned to NOT constrain my thinking by the choices the marketing people made. IOW that tent does not need to always look like it did on the store shelf. Split it up, reshape it, compress it, etc. On my tour last spring I split mine up. Poles strapped on the rear with my sleeping pad. Tent in one front pannier, fly and pegs in the other. You can also buy or make other storage bags (aka stuff sacks) that are longer or shorter or rounder than the original. Make the tent fit where you want it to go. This applies to many other things you carry.

I liked most of the tent weight on the front. Good enough but hot too much. Just the tent left plenty of other room for temporary things: a morning layer I no longer needed, some groceries late in the day on the way to camp, the Arby’s roast beef sandwich n fries I ran out for one night.

edit: Bogey Speedwell and I were typing at the same time.