So do his bibs, and his helmet, and his water bottles, and his bicycle for that matter. It's a matter of degrees, and, again, some people may want to get naked and roll around in the dirt and dry hump a shrubbery, others may get just as much enjoyment out of floating in a bubble 3 feet off the ground in a climate controlled HEPA-filtered environment.

Neither one of them is wrong, they just don't like the same damn things. All this "simpler is better," "getting back to nature" stuff is a value judgment, based on your own experience and preferences.