I suppose I could understand that argument. It would be fun if there was 1 equipment set that all participants had to use. Kind of like when they run Eddie Merckx races at the track - steel frame, toe cages, etc. I’d still like to see a super-modified class too, with the bleeding edge tech.
Here’s another one, maybe on the more common side of high-end. Moving aero flaps on the head tube and electronic shifting are both oddly UCI legal. haha.