DI2 Depression.

[nuliajuk]

...Electronic shifting does not propel the bike and, at the end, a strong rider in a clunker can drop the fanciest equipment ridden by a bad rider.

Yup. At the Pan Am games in Winnipeg in 1999, a Cuban rider on an old steel Colnago track bike won the men's kilo on the track. The second place rider was on a state of the art carbon fibre wind-tunnel tested wonder-bike. The rumour was that it had cost his association almost $20000 to develop.

[pll]

At the same time, it is sad when $ buys better results for riders within similar skill levels. I know there was a discussion about not allowing TT bikes in the Nature Valley Grand Prix time trial, but, overall, it was good for smaller teams that cannot afford to travel with at least two bikes per rider (and some teams do not have more than one bike per rider). That's an attempt to level the playing field.