Things might change once they start culling races with low turnout numbers in the new year. It’s very watered down right now. They will keep the more popular races and set the rest as private.
Personally, when I’m not doing ZRL, ZWS or BL13 race series, I’ll look at mass all cat starts eg map, zwift tours, or just community races with a good turnout of all cats, but starting together. A bit more fun I find. Our own race series is now all cat starts too, and we’ve noticed the entry numbers go up.
I looked back 2 years ago, it was 55 minutes of agony and I’m not as fit now!
I’ll be around, might be going out on my bike in the morning but hopefully I can make it if the GF doesn’t want to go anywhere but I can probably negotiate around it.