The Importance of Instant Feedback in Cycling

FTP gets a lot of emphasis and a focus in training because it's effective not because it's just hype. People like quantitative ways to compare themselves to their friends, enemies or competitors. You get that immediate much more immediate feedback than other things in cycling. There is probably still a decent amount of confusion over the metric itself which can lead to people throwing their hands up and going whatever who cares I don't write an FTP in my crit anyway.