Just a clarification:
I’m NOT complaining about the HV plan being too difficult: I’m doing every workout and still didn’t crash. Each workout is difficult and I probably couldn’t do one or two more intervals. But I can still complete them with a bit of will.
Just want to share how … intense the plan can be 
I’m not doubting your compliance or success at all. Great that you’re able to succeed on these HV plans. The issue I have is the high intensity prescribed in these plans goes against all expert advice from coaches and the research in this area. So…it just seems strange they are even an option ‘on the menu’.
If I use myself as an example of your average user. I likely not, as I’ve been training for many years and racing at a decent level. I walk into TR, and then start looking at the plans. I enter all my info and such, and look at the hours for HV - sure I can do that! I’ve been riding 600-700 hours a year for a decade, surely this plan is targeted to me. I ain’t no low or mid volume guy! I’d probably survive a few weeks on HV, but not way could I do 3 or 4 pretty high intensity sessions each week for too long.
Edit: I might be able to get away with 3 high intensity per week with one of them being more medium, but def not 4. No way I could do 2 Vo2max and a threshold O/U though, AND then do a SS on top of that sunday.
I agree, it seems at odds to even what TR teaches. Thought there is some grey area as TR doesn’t consider SS as intensity. The HV plan could be better and if I followed it exactly as RX’d I’d burn out. If I remember correctly, coach Chad didn’t even want to create a HV plan, but Nate encouraged him based on users’ requests. So even though HV is available, TR constantly pushes LV. This is where all the talk to renaming the plan to more accurately represent what they are. They’re not just high volume, they’re high intensity!
Sure, except 8-12 hours per week is not high volume.
Which is the other issue I have with the plan when someone walks through the TR door and is looking at the menu. It’s not high volume in my world from an hours per week perspective or a TSS per week perspective.
The TR team needs to rethink some of this stuff and how it is perceived by the user instead of telling the user through podcasts and other mediums, explaining these plans are for a select few people in the right circumstances, and I would argue with exceptional recovery capacity!
Interesting! What type of events you’re typically training for?
In the past it’s been XCO, XCM and MTB 100s. Last year our local XC series folded and I bought my first gravel bike. So for 2023 I’ll focus on our Gravel Race Series (100k distance). Will also probably sprinkle in a few XC races along with one XCM and MTB 100 (Lumberjack 
).