I wish someone like Columbus/Reynolds/Tange could catch on this. It'd be awesome a road bike made of fancy/extra durable stainless steel tubing, lugged, horizontal top tube and that classic geometry but with disc brakes and thru axles.
For me it was getting the fucking things into and out of car racks or trunks. Picking a bike up is not hard. Brandishing it at chest or head height is something else entirely.