Triple. You have one now, and like it.

What would you gain by going with a compact? I'm not 50 (31 y.o.), and I like having as many options as possible. I have a standard road double on my beater/errand retrogrouch steelie, and I miss having the added bailout gears. I have yet to figure out what advantage I would get by going with a compact, and I don't see it. I haven't had any trouble over the years with adjustment and reliability on a triple...

I rarely have to use the small ring around here, or the large one for most routine riding, but when I have been elsewhere (my g.f.'s family is in hill country in Pennsylvania, and I was in West Virginia last year for vacation) I would literally have been walking without the small ring on some longer/steeper pitches.

It feels a bit like the compact is a solution that has as much to do with image/OCP/posin' in general as it does with effect. You lose a minimal amount of weight, and functionality, and get to look like a tough guy with only two chainrings on the bike. I must be missing something.