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AFAICT…The stimulus, recovery, adaptation cycles are at different scales. One of them is daily with sleep as the recovery portion. So if one of those cycles has no stimulus, but the next one has double, it’s a different way of absorbing what might be the same total TSS. You missed one cycle and double the load on the next.
You’re tricking the body into becoming fitter by providing a stimulus that makes it want to adapt to a new status quo, so that it feels safe. 6 training days in 7 is a different status quo to 3/7, even if the training days are bigger.
10k van der poel’s 5/7 with two consecutive days off got a lot of people talking as it’s very unusual at that level to take consecutive days of rest, but his load was insane. Also, he did that for mental health rather than optimal adaptation, which should be taken into account. If you can’t motivate yourself to train 6/7 then don’t beat yourself up.
I find Fast Talk podcast is the great source of information on this type of thing.