Go for it. Tubeless is so common place now. You’ll get used to it quickly.
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As Adam says, go for it.
If it’s not for you just take out the tubeless valves, sealant, give the wheesl/tyres a bit of a clean & put inner tubes in.
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You can certainly run inner tubes with a tubeless set-up - it’s recommended to carry a tube for when sealant and plugs have all failed. Depending on the rims, you may have to run tubeless tyres, even with an inner tube, hookless rims for instance will not take non-tubeless tyres. Tubeless tyres are a bit more expensive, maybe a bit heavier, but you can run them at lower pressure for more comfort.
As others have said. Don’t let it put you off, give it a try. If you have too many problems, just stick a tube in the tyre.
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Thanks for the positive replies and tubeless doesn’t sound that bad 
Is fixing punctures easy enough on the roadside?
The wheels in question are Vision SC 55
https://shop.visiontechusa.com/en/wheelsets/road-triathlon/sc-55-disc
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The wheels look very nice, you shouldn’t need to upgrade for a while.
If the sealant doesn’t do it’s thing Google is your friend wrt roadside repairs & will go through what you can use whether it’s worms or darts.
If you do decide to use inner tubes - or carry a spare in your saddlebag - make sure the valve is long enough (70-80mm) to fit through your deeper rims.
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Pressed the button and bought the bike so hopefully it will arrive before the weekend 
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Hi peeps. Some advice please. My recently purchased gravel bike has some Schwalbe G-one tyres on. They are great for what I’m doing at the moment, but I’m looking to use this bike for some long distance audax rides (basically, more comfy with better brakes and gears than the bike I’d normally audax on). So I’m looking at swapping tyres over to some tubeless Conti gp5000s. Would this be relatively simple to do? I’ve got sealant, but I’ve only got a standard Joe Blow track pump. Is that enough to seat the beads of the tyres. Looked on YouTube and seems straightforward, but is this going to be a nightmare? Any other advice please! 
Edit to add that the current setup is tubeless.
If it’s already tubeless then should be straight forward to swap the tyres. How easy the tyres will mount with your pump is a bit of a lottery unfortunately, just depends how well the tyre/wheel combo marry up.
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Cheers @Doka Think I’ll just have a go and if it all goes wrong I’ll throw them at the local bike shop.
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FWIW I found mounting road tyres (up to 30mm) with a standard pump OK, but switching back to wider gravel tyres I ended up dropping the wheels down to the bike shop for their compressor.
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When you come to mount them, take the valve core out to pump them up. If you get them seated put your finger over the valve then quicky put the core back in.
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They’ll either mount easily with a floor pump or they’ll be a right royal PITA. In the latter case you then have the choice between trying all the tricks (YouTube has vids) with soapy water, ratchet straps, co2 cans etc, or just going to your LBS to use their air compressor.
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Lots of washing-up liquid all round the beads always works for me with a track pump. I usually pump up and get seated dry first (no sealant). Inflate to high pressure - the bead/wheel usually twangs loudly once when it seats, and then again indicating it is really bedded in. Now deflate and inject the sealant through the valve, or just crack a very small portion of the bead on one side opposite the valve and pour sealant in before reseat and re-inflation. Spin the wheel around a bit after done to get the sealant to all 4 corners 
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Thanks Tony. Will give all that a go.