Yes, there are more badges to accumulate in Zwift beyond what you get for riding your bike or running. There are badges for posting in this Forum!
I’m not kidding. Click on the three bar menu pull-down next to your profile button and you’ll see a “Badges” button. There’s all kinds of merit badges with getting started, community and so on. You’ll get them without doing anything but participating in the discourse here.
That’s how you can get privileges like posting emotis, pictures and links. And of course, the coolness factor…
Undoubtedly. And ZwiftHQ is not going to change the limit because there aren’t that many people who are approaching that limit so what would be the point?