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If you always do the sam thing, you'll get the same results. So even if you have 6h available and you always do threshold training, you'll stagnate.
Fact is, unless doing 20h a week, you'll never reach your potential, so you need to work out what gives you best bang for buck at the hours you have. And yes, it's likely a higher overall % of intensity. People doing 20h a week would likely be doing similar total intensity, but lower % of overall, as they're spending the rest of tbe time riding easy.
That said, if you always ride moderate hard and are stuck in a fatigue hole that you dont notice, you could do better by some easier stuff.
skinny
A lot of people miss the fact that Seiler didn't design a training philosophy, he just observed across elite sports that large proportion of training time was very low intensity.
If you are training 4-6 hours a week, should you copy elite athletes with 20-30 hours a week?
What is the point where you need to go easy more so as not to affect how much intensity you do...dunno. 12+ hours? 15+ hours?