"Proof-of-work is essentially one-CPU-one-vote."
Satoshi nakamoto
First of all. Satoshi is smart enough to have come up with bitcoin. But let's not forget that Satoshi is, well,
human. Just like us! Stop looking at him/her/them as someone who is all-knowing and someone that doesn't make mistakes.
This people made me laugh, what do they think of Satoshi? a god? who is omniscient? Nakamoto is very clever for doing such a digital currency, we are having it right now but it has flaws coz there is nothing in this world created perfectly or to be perfect. There will and there will be imperfect things that can do the work and that made us human.
I'm not entirely convinced satoshi did get it wrong. I think people are just taking those words too literally. Note the use of the word "
essentially". To me, that implies satoshi was merely outlining a general concept, not issuing some sort of decree that it had to mean each user could only use a single CPU. To the best of my knowledge, there has never been anything in the code that attempts to restrict usage in that way.
True, it's likely satoshi didn't envision Pools, GPU mining or ASICs happening quite as rapidly as they did. Mining did become an arms race rather suddenly. But I'm sure those words were never intended to be some sort of mantra to explicitly follow.