That is actually good news as I left with impression that you kinda would struggle to change the algo and therefore piggytailing on ZEC.


It's more than just 4x hashing power. It is 10x less power consumption. 10x time less heat and therefore 10x less heat extraction. also quite a space saver too. ASICs have lots of advantages against GPUs, but lets leave ASIC advantages alone and look on community itself.
I see @Skydreamer points/worries. Ordinal miners or just curious people have an option to try and mine VOT and have a play and test it. Somebody with just a single GPU can get involved in VOT.
If VOT becomes ASIC driven then you lose out those people and community - running ASIC is a business so if VOT is more of a business project then that's ok, just say it . People would like to know what to do, to leave VOT community or in contrary, join it with ASIC power . What direction are we going?
There are some thoughts for you Tom: if you make it ASIC resistant then lots of miners may soon join you. If you do not make it ASIC resistant then ASIC farms will join and so part of community may leave. I am not sure which route is best though. Maybe the best one is the one you are doing - just wait and see , but some may hate such waiting games. There is no way you can please us all .