"Gravel needs that buzz. but UCI fails to create level playing field" - Gravel rider Nathan Haas on why US gravel pros decline to start at the World Championships

They need to redesign the qualification systhem. Gravel races up high, gravel stages in road races also up there (strade bianchi), classics such as paris roubaix and flanders up in the points, cx next, road races and mtb last since road ≠ gravel, and a mtb ≠ gravel bike either! Doing only gravel should give you the chance to score full qualification points imho. Maybe assign a gravel difficulty score to each race, and go from there with race place score (or something to do with how much behind the winner you are). Races such as unbound need high difficulty score and acchieving a high score would make for a good starting place at gravel worlds. Races such as road races without gravel are easy, so diffuculty score is 0, which makes for a really challenging way to score a gravel starting place. Classics like paris roubaix and flanders are not 0 anymore, and gstrade bianchi is even more difficult in terms of gravel. That's how it should work.