Zwift’s plan: furiously digging out from under a mountain of technical debt, while not really caring what their competitors are doing.
Why? Because (to paraphrase Winston Churchill)
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DemocracyZwift is the worstform of government– MMORPG cycling game except for all the others that have been tried.”
Having tried RGT, Kinomap, and Rouvy, they’re cold and lifeless compared to Zwift. The onscreen avatars fall into the “Uncanny Valley”, there are virtually no other “live” riders - it’s mostly bots - and any technical comparison of graphic quality between the two completely ignores that RGT is deeply un-fun compared to Zwift.
There’s a lot I’d like to see Zwift do (a Companion App UI cleanup would be nice) but I’m not leaving the platform. Zwift could completely ignore all communication as long as the system “just works” whenever I hop on my bike and I’ll keep using it. I suspect I’m in the silent majority on this one.
/end gonzo rant
(edits - typos and grammar)