ASICs are a direct speedway to centralization. Do you want to concentrate a lot of XMR essence/power into the hands of a Jihan Wu kind of guy?. Nothing good can come from that. Let´s keep the proyect open and distrubuted, even if in hands of botnets
Depending on the algorithm we might be handing that power to literally Jihan Wu himself. I imagine SHA256 would be a contender.
Removing CPU friendliness also would kill browser mining, which unlike botnets, has some positive, in the light sorts of applications. Like salon.com
I remain sold on being ASIC resistant. But this is a good conversation.
I agree with you.