That Ron & Shamir paper has been, in the main, discredited - they got so much wrong, and missed so much, that it's basically useless. There's plenty of threads on it - read them.
You reference a website with a post entitled "Shitcoin: a Modest Proposal" - and which has a bitcoin donation address? Seriously?
I may not know as much as I think I do - probably don't - but I know a hell of a lot more about bitcoin than you do.
I know why it exists, and you have no clue.
It was decried, never discredited.