I still don’t see Bucky’s point here. Surely the entire game is set up so that players who have the grindy determination to process their entire pool and buy new routes each week are in a stronger position, irrespective of how Highways work?

@Kevan: Processing the entire pool requires you to hit three dailies (i.e. six double-dailies) out of 7 (14), i.e. be online three days a weeek.

The current rule makes it potentially optimal to do something that requires you to hit all seven of your dailies (all 14 double-dailies). That’s considerably grindier; it’s arguably reasonable to require a 3-days-out-of-7 grind (e.g. I did no dailies yesterday), but much less reasonable to require a 7-days-out-of-7 grind.

Ah, I’d forgotten that only the top five routes became Active each week, so there’s not an indefinite grind.