Originally Posted by
BlazingPedals
It's unfair because, like motor pacing, you're not cutting your own air for the whole segment. Or, at minimum, you get a head start on speed by drafting someone else. So you're relying on someone else to do at least part of the work.
We have segments that are on the routes of group rides that have been running since the days of down tube levers and toe clips. And that have been parts of Tour of California stages. The KOMs on those segments would probably still be the KOMs even if they were somehow restricted to ITT efforts only.