This week, Adam from the Road to A YouTube channel released a video outlining his list of the top 9 things missing in Zwift:
While he admits that his suggestions lean heavily into the racing side of Zwift, Adam is a thoughtful guy, and Zwift should be listening to his ideas. So I decided to unpack his video a bit by offering my take on each of his ideas and sharing that “conversation” with the world.
Below, I summarize each of his points, then provide my own star rating (out of 5) to indicate how important I consider this item to be in the universe of potential Zwift improvements. Lastly, I provide a comment to explain my rating. Let’s dive in!
#1: Drafting Indicator
Drafting is a key Zwift racing skill, but even today we still have no way of measuring how well we’re doing it. Can I save more watts if I get closer to this back wheel? What if I scoot left or right a bit? Sauce for Zwift and Pedal Games can both display it. Why doesn’t Zwift?
Adam, like (I imagine) most Zwifters, isn’t too fussed about exactly how a drafting indicator could work. It might show the number of watts saved, or just be a graph showing how much of the available draft you’re receiving.
My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Drafting is too mysterious in Zwift, and a simple indicator would go a long way toward helping people understand how it works.
#2: New Roads
Everyone loves new roads, but Zwift’s construction crews have always worked at a painfully slow pace. Adam would love to see new roads, and in particular, perhaps a long, double-sided climb that could be used in various ways to create interesting routes.
My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
I don’t think Zwift needs to release hundreds of miles of new roads each year, but I do think they should speed up construction, because Zwifters love to explore and experience new roads.
Expanding Watopia with some gravel rides in the rocks around Fuego Flats, giving us a few interesting urban roads in London, Innsbruck, and Richmond, releasing a velodrome… the possibilities are nearly endless.
#3: Connected Worlds
Why not connect all the worlds, instead of having separate maps? Adam thinks this would be a big improvement, because imagine the epic routes you could piece together!
My Rating: ⭐⭐
I’ve never been a fan of the connected worlds idea. I think just adding new roads fulfills this need – if each of the maps is big enough, the need to connect them goes away. (Also, connecting the maps would basically nuke my carefully-created library of Strava segments…)
#4: Custom Routes
What if event organizers could create a custom route using a simple tool, defining the start and finish locations, as well as the roads used in between?
My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
As a ride/race organizer, I’d love to be able to define custom routes. This wouldn’t be terribly useful on smaller maps, but on more complex worlds like Watopia and Makuri Islands, there are a lot of fun possibilities.
(ZwiftMap.com has a custom route builder that serves as a good example of how this could work.)
#5: More Variety in ZRacing
Zwift’s ZRacing series is the most popular one on the platform, but that’s not because they are particularly compelling events. They get a lot of participation because they are scheduled multiple times daily, Zwift advertises them, and the series has been running for a few years, so racers default to it when looking for a race.
Adam would like to see courses get more interesting, though. Perhaps each week’s route gets more climby, or more custom routes are used to mix things up.
My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
ZRacing events tend to be flat or rolling routes, which are the sort of routes I most enjoy racing. So I’m not going to complain about route choice! I would like to see more creative route selection, though, including some custom-length routes.
I think it’s good for Zwift to have a steady, predictable, and Zwift-owned race series always running. I just wish there were better tools for race organizers, so the community could be more creative in setting up additional races.
#6: Weight Verification
When Adam asks for weight verification, he’s not asking for what you think (some way to ensure everyone’s weight in Zwift is accurate). Instead, he’s asking for a simple popup that lets people know what their current weight is, and makes it easy for them to update if they’d like. Because, as Adam rightly explains, many Zwifters have their weight set incorrectly because they forget about it or don’t realize how important it is.
My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
This is a cool, simple idea, and one I’ve never heard suggested before. I think a weekly reminder like Adam suggests is too often, but a monthly or quarterly popup seems about right.
#7: Points Races
As Adam explains, Zwift natively supports just two race formats currently: scratch races and time trials. The concept of points races is a popular one, though, and if Zwift could support them with in-game HUD elements showing points segments and real-time results, this racing format would become very popular very quickly.
My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Points racing already exists in Zwift, of course, but supporting it natively in game (in real time) would turn points races into an exciting subgenre of Zwift racing with its own set of strategies and fitness requirements. If done right, it would be the biggest thing to happen to Zwift racing in recent years.
#8: Mixed Starts in Races
This one is going to be fairly controversial – Adam says that up front. What he’s pitching is that all categories start together in races, and the HUD is updated to show not only your overall current placement, but also your placement within your category. At the finish your score would be calculated based on how you finished among all riders in the race, not just those in your category.
My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
I like the idea of giving organizers the option to have their race work as Adam describes, because mass-start events can help push lower-category riders past their misconceived limits. And I really like the idea of being able to see where I’m currently placed in my category, instead of just the overall placing.
One caveat, though: organizing your race in this way should just remain an option, not a requirement. Because giving race organizers more options is a good thing, instead of forcing races to work in a certain way.
#9: ZRS Improvements
Zwift Racing Score was officially released in October 2024, but Adam isn’t satisfied with its current state. He mentions two issues in this video:
- It is heavily skewed by the type of routes you race on
- It really doesn’t take the strength of the field into consideration (despite claiming to do so)
Adam does a great job of delving further into ZRS’ shortcomings in this related video.
My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
On one hand, I must say that ZRS has been working fine for me, and has placed me where I think I should be in terms of the abilities of the riders I race against. I’m consistently in fields that push me to the limit, and where no riders are grossly overpowered and able to ride away from everyone.
That said, the score movements I’ve seen based on my results haven’t always made sense. So while I may not agree with all of Adam’s points, we are in agreement that ZRS still has considerable room for improvement. Adam’s related video digs into some of the key issues nicely.
Your Thoughts
What do you think of Adam’s suggestions and my replies? Are these the top 9 things missing on Zwift right now, or is there something else you’d put on the list first?
Regarding “weight verification” it’d be great if they expanded the Garmin integration to include syncing weight from the Index scales. Supposedly Withings and Fitbit scales do that.
Yes, let’s get Garmin scales in there. But the Withings connection has been borked for years. Supposedly Zwift will be fixing it… someday!
I sync from Withings to Strava and then to Zwift. I used to sync Withings to Fitbit and then to Zwift. You can use the site SmartScaleSync to do it all, but it’s more complicated than it needs to be
Thank you for this “reaction article”, Eric!
Let’s get the discussion rolling!
cool ideas Adam … the biggest needs are :
1) draft indicator
2) points races with in-game live score
3) Velodrome
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A velodrome!! I honestly thought before Jarvis Island made its grand appearance that it was going to be that. A bit like a Roubaix Velodrome. The events and format hosted on there would be endless!
I definitely would agree with custom routes too that organisers can create, and a bit more freedom in how we set up events. The events team are great, but would be awesome for us to make some of our own routes.
A way of using voice too, does not have to be like public voice so everyone in an 10m radius can hear you. But could be more like with friends you have in game or group where you can add people in. I like using discord but would be cool to have it in once place.
Finally maybe a simple API for event organisers to get race results.
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Not only that but there are several running tracks and I feel left out. Maybe the creation of a velodrome near me might spur the creation of one in Watopia or France.
I live in Tucson all year. Velodrome in Zwift=brilliant. The velodrome they are building in Vail = moronic. IF we could get non-climate-change normal weather it is unusable 6 months of the year. https://tucsonvelodrome.com/
I don’t get it that races first release the A’s then B’s etc instead of girst the D’s then C’s. In that way the fast ridets in slower groups could try to hop on.
montmartre Loop should be added to Paris! This would be very nice, and the same way bologna should expend with some punchy gravel climbs (i know bologna is not near Sienna, but it would make a nice world)
Maybe just add Paris to France through a tunnel seems odd Paris being its own world
All I need is a quality Fujisan in Makuri. And for the drone view camera controls to not use the same exact keys as rider navigation/turn choices. And stop forcing me to re-earn the XP/levels that I’ve already accrued thru “accelerated leveling”. YMMV, obv.
Oh, I’m sure Zwift is just itching to add more mountains—any day now! It’s obviously way simpler (and cheaper) to just whip up another copy-paste climb in the portal than actually give us something new or interesting. And heaven forbid they put any effort into making climb portals look less like a digital void and more like, you know, real places. But hey, why bother with tools to automatically add trees, lakes, bridges, or houses when we can bask in those beautiful, empty roads? Meanwhile, Biketerra—run by a grand total of two people—somehow manages to do it convincingly. But I guess “innovation” means something different at Zwift.
Guess you should be commenting on http://www.biketerrainsider.com
I was only recently reflecting on a conversation we had Eric a few years ago about mixed racing with all categories visible. Admittedly 400+ racers on downtown dolphin peak covid was a little chaotic to say the least!
LOL. Once riders start getting lapped in Crit City, all bets are off…
I really don’t get the point of race categories in the first place. Even if I could win a cat B race I know I would still be a cat A loser. In real life categories do make sense because there is a real skill and safety issue but not virtually
The main point of categories is that they allow more people to do something other than hold on for dear life.
Mass start makes a lot of sense on courses that will split people up, but on flatter routes where the blob tends to stay together breaking it into categories allows more people to animate their own race.
Isn’t this what the Tour of Zwift every year in January basically is? So they already have it.
Yes to 1, 2, 7 and 8, especially 7. Zracing in the A cat has just become a drag race. Point segments would spice it up nicely.
Built in dual recording should be on this list. Tracking of battery levels in power meters, HRMs and such too.
Otherwise all are great ideas that are long overdue (except linking worlds…).
Dual recording does not provide the verification of power that everyone thinks it does. Several people (including one from the UK championships) have been caught now that had 100s of duals that looked perfectly fine. Perhaps @Eric Schlange should do an article on this?
points race support would be amazing. do you have a sense if this is even on zwift hq road map?
would be key before a velodrome course makes sense.
I’ve heard rumors that it’s coming. But I won’t believe ’em until I see it!
I would really love to have the ability to save multiple rides as a single ride with lap splits. I often do a warmup ride before a group event or a race. Instead of having multple activities sent to Strava or Garmin, I want Zwift to keep the current ride data. At the home screen, then have a “End Zwift Session” button that would send all completed rides as a single activity with laps for each ride done.
Or maybe when you end a ride, ask: “Save as activity?” or “Hold as split?”
In fact, I dislike having many small activities for a day enough that I have my Strava set to “Private” for all activities. Then use fitfiletools.com to join all of the Zwift rides into a single activity to load to Strava. And delete all of the smaller rides from Strava
I would love to skip those manual steps.
I guess the biggest issue is: How to name the one activity? Zwift names are already too long. Linking 3 or 4 events into a single title would be longer than “War & Peace” 😉
Good idea, with many really short routes I would like the opportunity to do them in a bunch or maybe do a Tempus Fugit warm up before.
I’m a big fan of the connected worlds. That would make longer rides easier and add more variation to them.
As ZRS goes, my current rating hasn’t moved for MONTHS. I was racing ZRL and our team blew up on the final and my rating hasn’t moved since. I’ve done a few races but not consistently. Now my score shouldn’t just be judged on races alone.
Have you finished a race since? Once you’ve done your first race your score only moves after finishing each race. The main reason for your score not moving is if you’re at your floor and still getting bad results, and the most likely reason for that is if you set a 5min power record well beyond your true ability. That same power record would increase your zMAP and push you towards or into a higher pace group. But power records expire after 90 days, and pace groups and ZRS floors with them.
ZRS has its share of issues, this really isn’t one of them.
“On one hand, I must say that ZRS has been working fine for me”
except for that time you tanked your rating in an hour by treating the tiny races as a vo2 workout and not a race.
When the Zen master has to drop a whole category just to stay in the game, that’s the ultimate endorsement of ZRS’s legendary quality.
Ha ha, I had forgotten about that!
Honestly, while I did tank my score, that didn’t negatively impact my race experiences that followed. (And I still didn’t win.) But yeah, that tanking seemed pretty extreme.
I don’t feel strongly about connecting the worlds, with one exception, why is France and Paris separate worlds. How cool would races in France be if they could sometimes end like the tour on The Champs-Élysées. Expanding Italy would also be cool, Bologna comes up so infrequently, would be great if it was expanded with some Alps climbs
About #2: We need more routes that are specifically tailored for e-racing. For example, try to find a course with two back-to-back climbs, each around 4 minutes. We don’t have one. Or a course that starts at higher elevation, goes over a short but selective climb (2~3 minutes), followed by a relatively long and shallow descent, and then climbs back again. That would create opportunities for aggressive and unpredictable tactics.
Also, we already have #8 in both Zwift Epic Races and the Sisu Tour. It’s interesting at first, but it ends up killing the race for the lower categories.
New roads – yes! While London, Innsbruck, and Richmond are ripe for new roads; I’d love to see the new Montmartre climb from this year’s TdF added to the Paris world. And Crit City also has endless possibilities for new routes.
Also, remember the Zwift labs experimental events from around May last year? There were a few events there that were kind of interesting – especially the Beat the Bots race. As a first iteration it was OK, but people (including Eric) came back with a whole list of suggestions to make it better. And what happened? The whole concept disappeared never to be seen again.
One of Zwift’s biggest limitations is that you cannot choose a custom race start point—only the finish line. All races have to begin in the starting pen, which can make things feel a bit repetitive and less exciting. It would be amazing if we could create custom challenges, like Sagan’s famous attack in Richmond, which is already on Strava but sadly cannot be recreated as a race or time trial in Zwift. That kind of flexibility would really add some fresh energy and fun to the races! Of course, this is just a drop in the ocean of missing features in Zwift.
More focus on running. I know it is currently free but I would happily pay for an “upgraded” account if running was given the same attention as bikes get. Personally I run and ride alternate days each week and although running is good it is clear that it has a long way to go to equal the bikes. No workout builder. No companion app inclusion. Limited route badges. No challenges. No ability to enrol in a bike and run training plan at the same time (Yes I know there is the multisport mixer plan). No inclusion in the new fitness functionality. etc etc
Replace the static text prompts on the screen with dynamic text based on measured data. I use Zwift pretty much as a workout platform rather than racing. I am sure with the rapid development of all things AI it should be possible to have messages / feedback that reflect how well I am doing compared to the targets for workout blocks. Kind of like a virtual coach.
Would love to see an Elemination Race option on Downtown Dolphin, Bell Lap, Glasgow Crit and Glasgow Reverse.
Those 4 routes are perfect for an elimination race. I believe all 4 routes have 2 banners on them so prefect.
As a longtime user of Zwift (since 2016), I am disappointed to see that many riders are racking up massive amounts of free km by teleporting to random riders and then descending repeatedly. Obviously, they are doing this to unlock the bike stages faster without putting in the hard work. Anyways, I submitted a request to Zwift that as a rider who is putting in the work to unlock these bike stages, that we have the option to either accept or decline a teleport request. I do not mind if it is a rider I know such as a friend but not a random rider on my follower list.
Just remove them from your follower list and they cant teleport to you anymore if it bugs you that much.
More roads always and forever please!!!
I’d like to see a new road surface similar to a double-track trail where the CRR heavily favors mountain and gravel frames over road frames. That road surface would be ideal for new gravel/MTB-specific routes in Fuego Flats and a loop around the base of Alpe du Zwift. There’s also a lot of open space in France that could be filled with gravel routes. The double-track road surface would encourage more Zwifters to buy MTBs and gravel frames in the Drop Shop.
Add my voice to the chorus demanding Montmartre be added to Paris as well.
I would love to see some dedicated single track and make the gravel/mountain bikes more relevant. I don’t even care that I don’t have to do the technical stuff. Just a fun change of pace and a reason to upgrade the gravel/mountain bikes.
The RoboPacer minimaps need to show the time remaining on the current lap. It is a real pain on long routes trying to estimate when you need to be joining the pacer if for example you are going for route completion badges.
#2 and that’s it. It seems to me that Zwift (like Strava, RWGPS, etc) mostly just work on features that I’m not interested in. Maybe #4 to bring longer group rides back to the Events. It’s all just non-stop races and routes under an hour
I think the Pacer Bots have killed off many of the longer group rides. It’s hard to beat the convenience. Start/finish any time. Teleport back if you get dropped. Very steady pacing.
I would totally add a category for badges for the climb portal. Then in the companion app a way to filter by routes. But also, I would like to see more realistic real world routes/roads. Like add in more mini worlds to allows for a few routes in places the world tour goes thru.
i agree. Having UCI worlds courses from three locations is cool. But make it more!
Regarding new roads adding missing roads to mont ventoux was something I expected with the last update to the France map.
For Watopia I always wanted a jungle bypass for Alpe
Oh, and I want a free cam … I want to know what the blinking thing on the mountain near the western town is.
I want to connect all the worldviews and ride a proper Grand Phone course customarily. Wouldn’t it be okay to connect France, London, and New York through Teleport anyway? One more thing is to divide the race by race score and age, and it would be nice if there was an event where you could choose and run by weight.
thank you.
Considering that the racing is one of Zwift’s biggest selling points compared to the competitors, it is really odd that it still doesn’t have in-game native support for points races and TTTs. It would also be nice if time-trials, both individual and team, had in-game support for checkpoints.
I’d love to see the height attribute removed/not used in draft calculations.
I know IRL it affects draft, but IRL a tall person can have a great aero position to remove the impact & likewise a shorter person could have a really poor position.
i just don’t like the fact that a determining factor is one that can’t be improved / changed / controlled. You can get more powerful, lose weight etc, but you can’t get shorter.
good idea, In real life I can bend lower than my lower colleagues.
All good points with reasonable responses. Something not mentioned that really needs to happen is an event creation tool for trusted community organizers. James is great but requiring every event be created through him is an unnecessary step that he shouldn’t have to worry about.
That and custom route creation would be incredible for event organizers.
I don’t think it’s wise for Zwift to let even trusted organizers put events on the public calendar without some sort of approval process. But I absolutely agree that there should be an easy way to submit such an event (put it together and the events team gets a notification to check/approve it for public display).
Also, organizers should be able to change event titles, text descriptions, and more without the event team having to do it. Again, if Zwift is concerned about loss of control here, they could have a simple approval process set up.
Fair point to have some check before a community-created event goes live on the calendar. After creation it could go through a real quick check by whoever (I’m sure it would still be James) to make sure someone isn’t spamming the calendar, or doing something abusive, or otherwise has some critical errors. And that would be a big reduction in his workload plus faster and easier for organizers.
#1 – Yes. (This is not important, but is perhaps a ‘nice to have’).
#2 – Yes. If ZHQ can’t get more new construction completed, even just adding several connector roads would be a big improvement and would open up countless new route options…
#3 – No.
#4 – Yes. But unlike zwiftmap.com’s implementation – if Zwift does this, it needs to actually work I tried for days to get the ‘Route Builder’ to function properly – but alas, the code is too buggy and simply worked about 33.3% of the time.
#5 – #9 – Maybe, but what is the % of those who train and ride on Zwift versus actual focus on all the virtual races? That stat should help ZHQ decide where to spend their effort.
A velodrome would be a nice change. It can’t be that hard to build an oval with minimal scenery. They don’t even really need to create exotic physics for the banking. This would allow some track style team racing events to be introduced. Other platforms have done this to some degree already
Controlling the camera views currently is some kind of failure. The older way was much better. Now I have to select a type and then confirm the selection which azgazes me more.
I would love to have
Actually a great video by Adam with pretty interesting ideas. Been following this guy quite a while now and I must say he does a very good job and his channel deserves a lot more attention.
As a Zwifter since 2016, my primary interest at this point are events that allow me to accumulate XP and drops. The Pacer rides handle the latter, but the former is a bigger challenge. The twice weekly “XP Express” rides during June were great. Those, combined with the ride streak bonus (I’m up to 86 weeks) and the “Route of the Week” helped me move up two level (to 92) in just four weeks. Would love to see Zwift bring those opportunities back.
If Zwift implements the drafting indicator, I think they should also add the feature where if you overlap your virtual front tire with the virtual rear tire of the bike you’re drafting, you crash into the ditch… just like in real life.😋
Here are three things that I would like to see added / fixed to Zwift:
1) Not having to reconnect my sensors on the Android app after every ride. It really is annoying to waste a couple of mins getting my trainer, cadence and heart rate sensor to reconnect when I’m hopping between short routes.
2) And speaking of the Android app, we need a version of the app that works with Google TV. I have this beautiful 65″ Sony that I don’t use with Zwift because I have to cast the low res graphics from my tablet. I want to enjoy the high res scenery you get with the PC app on my nice big 4k TV 🙂
3) It would be nice if you could see what jersey’s (Sprint, KOM, TT) are available on each route. They need to add them to both the mini map at the top and to the route profile (which exists once you start the route). It would also be nice for them to add a new section with detailed info on the jersey’s, distance, incline or elevation change to better judge how hard they are to the preview as well.
3a) Would also be nice if you could filter / sort routes based on types and numbers of jersey’s as well. Want to hunt green jersey’s? Which route has the most sprints??
I have an open support ticket with zwift on the android reconnect thing. No activity in a month though. They even fixed it in the past as you can see it mentioned in release notes, but they broke it again.
Maybe it’s just me, but I’d be down for a feature that lets us sell old bikes in the Garage.😁
Two suggestions:
(1) I never found it fair that I ride uphill at 100% effort, but the downhill is adjusted to 50% (as I understand it). The small light riders a total advantage up, but don’t suffer from the corresponding disadvantage down. This penalizes the taller, heavier riders coming down where theoretically they should be able to close more of the gap that opens up on the climb.
(2) In races, force all racers to race at the same difficulty setting. The science suggests it is the same effort either way, but it isn’t 100% true on very steep climbs when a rider runs out of gears and is forced to grind at low RPM — at least for me this is way more taxing on my system than spinning fast.
I wouldn’t quite say it like you did (“I ride uphill at 100% effort, but the downhill is adjusted to 50%”).
It’s just a trainer resistance thing… assuming you’re set at 100% Trainer Difficulty (for simplicity’s sake), Zwift sends 100% of the incline to your trainer, but only 50% of the decline. This is done so we “spin out” less on descents, because people don’t really want to be forced to coast for minutes on end on steep downhills.
This doesn’t change in-game speeds, as the physics in game are still using the full 100% gradient for inclines and declines, regardless of which Trainer Difficulty setting you use. I would also say it doesn’t penalize particular riders either.
Hope that makes sense.
would love to see some events that utilise the functionality of the zwift controllers. Just being able to move left/right on the road doesn’t justify the cost. all the other useful functions can be done from the companion app.
It would make sense to combine Paris and France into a “France” world. Also combine Scotland and London into “UK” and add routes in other parts of the UK. And (yes, you guessed it) combine Richmond and New York into “USA”. That would at least reduce the rotation time between worlds (as there would then be fewer worlds). It’s just daft to have a world (Paris) with only two routes!
How about a reasonable way to fan view anyone, on any ride or in an event or race, at any time? Right now there are a bunch of kludgy work-arounds which only work in some circumstances.
I’d also like to see a realistic draft mode.
Make it available as an option (like “double draft”) and let’s see what happens.
Pour le point #6 la balance connectée devrait faire sont apparition pour les course uniquement comme le capteur HT et RPM , une connectivité bluetooth serait assez facile.
some good suggestions particularly #1 and #2
Some others I’d like to see include:
A. Climb portal climb profiles to show akin to veloviewer before you enter the world with it in. Com and height total is not enough.
B. Completed route icon showing in other areas either on the event etc tile or when you select an event etc. and get a route summary (before loading the world).
C. Show user who is logged in when on the pairing device screen and a way to go back to change user at this point. (Have earlier sucky Apple remote with older 4KATV. This means you can sometimes annoyingly login to other accounts my mistake. Appreciate 3rd party remotes available and it might be my accursed sausage fingers.)
P.S. how do you get a carriage return in these comments?
When Adam asks for weight verification, he’s not asking for what you think (some way to ensure everyone’s weight in Zwift is accurate).
^^^ Hey Zwifters, if “you don’t have a power meter, you don’t race” is fine for you then so should “you don’t have a scale you don’t race”. An iHealth scale on Amazon is $30 FFS, and at this point in life vs technology I would be shocked if the average Zwifter doesn’t own a bluetooth scale…and thus why people *want* integration.
I’m sure that is not a popular stance but what does Zwift do if your investment is a speed sensor and a cadence sensor versus anything that puts out W? You aren’t racing, right? Solid “Nope, and why would you think otherwise.” So when The Game Math is W/kg, then go look in the mirror if you wanna see a crazy person spew about weight requirements in Zwift timed event scenarios.
In ordinary Zwift use, I don’t care that much because I race me very well, but since I am spewing – I don’t see why a verified weight doesn’t get you something to reward your commitment to making the virtual a bit more realistic; e.g. time bonus for a KQOM/sprint or something like that. Like, ya know, so, users get rewarded for time-in-game commitment with sweaty drops of joy and have faster bikes/wheels, so in my pea brain it is not a stretch to make commitment=commitment.
That said, if you wanna weight dope and/or pretend like you have a Pogacar FTP as you ride around and crow about the jerseys you got, then have at it. You might think I want a pterodactyl to swipe you off your virtual bike and eat your face but I could not possibly comment.