Being objective, 1x would be ok if you didn’t have to ride to your trails.
As I do have to ride on the road, I don’t wanna waste any time getting there or back so a 44/11 top gear is bloody useful.
And in mass centralisation terms having a massive cassette is terrible. With fatbikes having wide BBs maybe non-fat bikes could have that and we can have 5 chainring cranksets which would only necessitate a 5/6 speed cassette out back.
Subjectively, 1x is for brainwashed sheepoids