Doubling down, not beating a dead horse:

How hard would it be to install a small motor in a rear derailleur upper pulley wheel? Much easier if you've got a battery stuck on there already. The chance of a UCI ban on all bike-mounted electronics is slim, but not zero if they decide mechanical doping is a serious problem.

Edit: immediately realized I had the chain going backwards. That setup wouldn't work. The point that mechanical doping could be more easily detected if all bike-mounted electronics were banned stands.

I would offer a thoughtful response to this, but I am too busy pondering how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

74, no more, no less.

Maybe my original idea could work with strong clutches.

Did someone challenge you to dream up silly reasons why derailleur technology will suddenly reverse course?

Nope, just having fun thinking outside the box.

With all due respect, making silly predictions is not thinking outside the box.

Then what is?

King Canute trying to reverse the tide