i always found it weird that such a powerful rig was only earning so little, especially since other claimed so much more.
I will ask my mate (also in the UK) to point his rig at 1 pool for 12 hours, just so we can see what he earns...my suspicion is less than 200 coins (perhaps it is down to lag, i know that dramatically affects solo mining, but didnt think it had much affect on pool mining).
So if i "hate" anything, its simply when an real old good coin, is taken away from the masses, being mined gently in the background (as Satoshi's original concept) and becomes only mineable by a few with huge investment, running 24/7.
I see a sizeable 1.5 Gh/s rig joined, getting a few hundred per hour as expected. 300-400 coins a day is single card level, too little for the rig for sure!
Well, since rig users are mostly driven by simple greed, once the difficulty rises too high they return to mining their ethereum or whatever is trendy and the difficulty falls back.
So far various altcoins tried to introduce scalable rewards and such to be rig-resistant, but none of those really took off yet, perhaps implementing your idea of a coin that can't be mined by the same node 24/7 would be a fun challenge.
As of quark, anime indeed uses same hashing functions in different order, but it also requires a few 80-bit hash routines which only ANI uses, thus porting is not trivial (i had some headache modifying KlausT's ccminer and it still turned out slower than tpruvot's). I'm quite sure it will remain asic-resistant for the time being.
I should mention lower tier cards seem to have a better cost-effectiveness on this algo as well, 1050ti=20Mh, 1060/P106=23-29Mh, 1070=27-29Mh... Wonder how well 1080ti performs?