The race for comfort is rear biased but it should be now about front of the bike...
Both new GT Grade and Cannondale Topstone Carbon use a very sophisticated solutions to provide a suspension like comfort focused on the rear of the bike. But the comfort comes mostly from the front of the bike so all the effort should be focused on making front more comfortable. Yet only Specialized with futureshock, Canyon with hoover handlebar and Giant with D-Fuse handlebar is trying to to something in that area. As a owner of shockstop stem I can say with confidence that we need more of solutions like that instead of making rear more and more flexing. So it is dissapointing that Cannondale, with a history of front suspension on road bikes (headshok) did not go in that direction while making new Cannondale Topstone Carbon. Now we have to wait for 2020 Specialized Diverge to see an implementation of the improved future shock...