Scrypt ASICs existed when SDC launched and SDCDev justified its use by saying "scrypt is tried and tested".
Even on page one you can see some comments expressing concern about the choice of scrypt.
To then act surprised when solo ASIC miners join the fun is spurious at best. Anynody can buy/rent a scrypt ASIC and I expect this was also true then.
The only pool open for pre-reg Chickenstrips (chickenstripes?) and listed on the original OP crashed hard only 30 blocks after the first 120 "fair launch" 1SDC reward blocks. Chaos IMO.
I believe (unresearched claim) that the first scrypt ASICs started appearing in March/April of 2014. Therefore it was most profitable for these ASICs to be pointed at Litecoin well throughout the PoW phase of SDC. It was unforeseen that these ASICs would be pointed at a new coin like SDC.
After Chickenstrips goes down (as reported in the original thread), 4 new mining pools are posted with a page of the thread. So your claim of "chaos" is extremely farfetched.