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At the risk of sounding "boomer", I'm going to say that gearboxes are nowhere near ready for bicycles. (maybe shuttled downhill only?) Anyone who has rebuilt any transmission, car / motorcycle / tractor, knows that the amount of unavoidable drag /resistance / friction /watt-sucking is shocking. downvote me because you love Honda clickbait

inside line ride along w/ john hall, team robot, schroeder, simonetti and me is up now. tons of rad bike nerd stuff. it' only 3 hours 15 mins, so we couldn't cover everything : ) video or podcast channel https://www.vitalmtb.com/features/john-hall-inside-line-ride-along-ep-2

Man, You can literally go out today and buy all the XX1 components your little heart desires that are still cable actuated, Canadian online parts suppliers have it all in stock (TBS bike parts) except the crankset. Please, just go buy it, and ride yer bike, and stop worrying about it. Its not that big a deal, you'll be just fine. Maybe chill out on your obsession with new SRAM highest tier only being AXS, which is only speculation.

taking bets on when that photo will be ripped and used on the other site..... 1 day, 2 days....

It's likely that most of the crazy high pricing we are currently seeing is the knock on effect of those high material, labor and shipping costs as companies tried to carry on doing business and take advantage of the high demand and low availability while planning to shift the additional production costs on to the consumer who had no choice but to accept it. But I suspect now as costs readjust back to normal or thereabouts, the companies that invested heavily during the pandemic are going to be stuck with a lot of expensive stock they can't sell, while smaller...