Originally Posted by Doge

I bought one of these CVT/infinite gear bikes for tooling around on and kid's school commute. The bike was heavy and not fun to ride, but changing gear ratio was a very easy turn of the handle, like a motorcycle accelerator. I noticed (no power meter) that I was turning my wrist for little things where I may have just torqued through it.

I wonder if the data you see is not more just because the shift takes some mental energy/guess work and is often too big, where the rider can do a mini stomp on the pedal and get the same result.