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tl;dr version of this post - Wouldn't it make more sense for Pas Racing and Four by Four allocate their XP the other way around e.g. 200, 300, 500, 1000 for Pas Racing?

And now for the slightly longer version...

We've recently had the Pas Racing series which I thoroughly enjoyed. Zwift Racing Score was introduced just before I had a long break from Zwift so it was my first real experience with the new system. My initial impressions are it works much better than the arbitrary W/kg categories which I always found unsatisfactory for racing (but fine for group rides). I'm amazed it took this long to happen considering CVR were trying to do something similar "way back when". Anyway, that's by the by. We now have the Four by Four series starting.

What I find odd about both Pas Racing and Four by Four is Zwift's allocation of bonus XP for the stages. We can debate whether bonus XP is even sensible but if we assume it is for the purpose of discussion...

It seems backwards to me to have the big 1,000 XP bonus for the first stage, then the increasingly smaller bonuses for subsequent ones. Isn't this likely to encourage people to jump into one event, grab the bonus, then abandon the series? If you're going to use XP to attract people to a series wouldn't it make more sense to have the small bonuses for the first stages, and the big bonuses for the later stages so people race the entire series?

Is there some masterplan I am missing as to why these series are front-loaded?

Edit: Thanks to those who offered an opinion. I accept I was looking at things from my perspective, but if I view them from Zwift's perspective what they're doing makes a lot more sense than I initially gave it credit for.