Warning: The following contains SPOILERS for The Flash, season 6, episode 18, "Pay The Piper."
The Flash season 6 has turned the new villain Godspeed into a half-hearted rip-off of season 2's big bad Zoom. Granting that Godspeed had yet to be developed much as a villain, what had been shown so far suggested he had the potential to be a different kind of Big Bad to The Flash's previous speedster foes.
Godspeed is a recent introduction into The Flash comics, first appearing in The Flash: Rebirth #1 in 2016. The opening story arc of the current Flash comic series introduced Godspeed as a new villain who appeared shortly after a Speed Force storm began giving random Central City citizens super-speed, and began killing the new speedsters and stealing their power to boot his own abilities. By the end of the arc, Godspeed was unmasked as August Heart, a CCPD detective and Barry Allen's best friend at work, who had gone mad with power and started abusing his speed to play judge, jury and executioner while searching for his brother's murderer.
Godspeed was introduced into the Arrowverse in The Flash season 5 episode "Godspeed." Here, he was the first villain faced by Nora West-Allen after she discovered her own connection to the Speed Force. As in the comics, his real name was August Heart, but instead of being a police officer he was an intern at Mercury Labs who had replicated the Velocity-9 drug and was stealing the materials to make his super-speed permanent. Later, in The Flash's season 6 premiere, it was revealed that Team Flash had fought four different Godspeed impersonators who traveled back in time and caused chaos before being brought down by Barry Allen, over the summer of 2019. His latest appearance, however, gives him the same motivation as Zoom: he's yet another evil speedster who wanted to steal Barry Allen's power for himself and attain "infinite velocity."
Godspeed returned in The Flash season 6's penultimate episode, "Pay The Piper," bypassing STAR Labs' security and threatening to destroy Central City if Barry Allen didn't surrender his speed to him. He made this threat despite seriously outclassing Barry, who had been steadily losing his powers over the second half of the season. This made the entire episode seem like a throwback to The Flash season 2, even ignoring the presence of the Pied Piper, who hadn't appeared on the show since then.
The gimmick of a speedster who is much faster than Barry but still wants to take his power has been done before and, frankly, been done to death. It was never done quite so well, however, as in the second season of The Flash, with the crazed crimeboss Zoom and his army of evil metahumans, who conquered Earth 2. Even allowing for his new powers and the gimmick that Godspeed has multiple followers who have inherited his powers and communicate via hive-mind (At one point Godspeed tells Barry that "We deserve your speed.") the character still seems like nothing more than a white-suited rip-off of Zoom.