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By the way, RWGPS has recently announced "popularity based" routing is coming soon (@hippy and @danstuff hopefully based on some sort of heatmap), pretty sure they'll boost their segment comparison interface too. Agreed RWGPS is geekier and not as immediate to use, that's why I love it and I am happy to pay for it.
Using different maps backgrounds allowed me to find and piece together routes that I wouldn't have otherwise ever managed, particularly offroad (including rad offroad tours @Tijmen );
Other features are just priceless, like the editing tools for long trips and multiday routes.
On Strava's move, they got to the point of social network level, more than stats tracker and are simply capitalizing on people behavioural addiction, fair enough. Half of the ppl on my Strava paid for it anyway, some of them will drop it, some of the free members will join it to fuel the addiction to segments and such. Not much will change.
As far as I am concerned, I am happy to have an excuse to stop care so much about segments, particularly where I ranked >#10th (significant majority)