Having ridden BPW for the first time a week ago I have to say its about as perfect a model of what a (UK) trail center should / could be IMO.
You can pedal up the fire roads, you can take the more challenging “Beast of Burden” climb or you can clamber onto the uplift.
Pretty much all of the trails bringing you back down are great, the Blues are just pumpy, swoopy goodness which you can actually pick up a silly amount of speed on, the reds are a good mix of that plus some more techy and bumpy stuff and the Blacks are more challenging still with less grip, more mud and some bigger features, but there are still chicken lines for the scarier stuff.
There’s plenty of options and you can stitch the different lines together meaning there’s no need to ride the exact same route twice in a day.
You can take whatever bike you fancy from a Full on DH bike to an XC whippet and find something worth riding on it…
I’d say it’s an idealized example and not every location in the UK has the terrain or funding to achieve what they have at Gethin…
Swinley is my local and they’ve done a lot with what they have, again it ticks a number of boxes if your after a day or a half days straight forwards fun riding on trails set out specifically for that purpose, whats not to like?
Like most people the majority of my mileage is still local, on cheeky woodland trails and bridal ways, I’d not be without this sort of riding, but I don’t really see why it has to be an an “either / Or” type decision I think trail centers and Local* riding both form part of a Balanced MTBing diet…
*I’ll not call it “Natural” as that’s not an honest description IMO…