How should Zwift calculate rider speed?

I have a feeling that after all this autocat testing we will realize that the problem has never been how categories are determined, but how Zwift computes speed in game. I don’t see anyone talking about how someone with 180W (3 w/kg) can keep up just fine with 240W (3 w/kg) rider in a group. If w/kg plays a heavy role in calculating speed in game, what’s the point of determining categories based on anything other than w/kg? If your time in a course is a function of speed, which is a function of w/kg, isn’t your time in a course a function of your w/kg? Isn’t then, all this seemingly new categorization system, the same crap in a different dress? Glass half empty…

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