I think the presence of this PoW system might mean that this form of abuse is discouraged enough that in practice it means that PoW will not be required. Who is going to compete with a huge amount of compute to DoS others? They'd need the same compute as all legitimate access put together to get to just 50% effectiveness.
If this is the case and in practice PoW is never required, then your rant is moot, and instead it is interesting that this effect occurs.
My thought exactly. Would be interesting if they shared metric of pre and post level of DDoS attacks so there was some proof this scheme actually has desired effect.
If this is the case and in practice PoW is never required, then your rant is moot, and instead it is interesting that this effect occurs.