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Actually on every current gen group you can mix and match with gravel gearing and derailleurs so this problem is solved, there's no need to increase the road bike gearing range any further for shimano and sram, not to mention that both of those offer up to 36t or so cog road cassettes natively. 
And c*mpy has something like a 45/29 chainrings for their 12s groups