Using ASICBoost prevents many forms of development that helps
scaling and non-scaling issues. It is potentially more serious
than anything else currently.
asic boost has been around longer.
easy fix.. make software that doesnt hurt the hardware.. not the other way round.
cant blame the hardware of 2 years ago for software problems of 6 months go
thats like saying ATI exploited bitcoin by being better at GPU mining in 2011-2013 compared to Geforces poor efforts
that like blaming raspberry Pi1 for not validating signatures fast, and so libsecp256k1 had to be invented because raspberry Pi was attacking bitcoin