​Question for gym owners, trainers, and serious lifters: would this be useful or unnecessary?

I’m exploring an early-stage fitness tech idea and trying to figure out whether the problem is real before taking it too far.

The concept is a system that helps gyms better understand how their free-weight areas are actually being used: which areas get crowded, which equipment is overused or underused, when bottlenecks happen, and whether the current layout actually works.

For gym operators, the goal would be better decisions around equipment purchases, floor layout, congestion, staffing, and member experience.

For members, the idea would be optional automatic workout tracking and workout insights without needing to manually log every set, scan equipment, enter weights, or change much about how they already train. The goal would be to make tracking feel passive instead of like another chore.

A few questions:

Do gyms currently have a good way to understand free-weight utilization, or is it mostly observation, complaints, and gut feel?

Would data on congestion, equipment usage, and dwell time actually influence layout or purchasing decisions?

For lifters, would automatic workout tracking be valuable if it worked without much behavior change?

Where would the line be between “this is useful” and “this feels invasive or unnecessary”?

I’m intentionally keeping this high level because it’s still early, but I’d appreciate blunt feedback from gym owners, trainers, lifters, or anyone who has dealt with crowded free-weight areas.