A little fuel:
We looked up the code and were able to see that the current 'power savings' are just temporary as the algo itself is very bad in shape so its not properly configured which leads to less work for the card. So if its 'optimized' ( which is something bad in this case :-) ) in the future that energy saving 'feature' will fall apart but the hashrate will rise because of optimiziation.
Furthermore all algos used in x11 are optimized for ASICs :-)
So its possible that X11 is a "Trojan Torse"?, trying to trick us with energy saving and ASIC resistant talk, when in reality its just a poor optimized algo?
And in the near future after a widespread adoption its true colours will show up? Like a super duper X11 ASIC miner?
Is the ASIC industry trying to manipulate us?
Doubtful that it is the manufacturers toying with us. X11 is the same person who created darkcoin. I'd say they are one of the most against the centralized nature of the world as it gets. Dark send, also the same guy will supposedly make transactions completely anonymous. Not exactly mainstream. The algos in x11 are all at least individually asic easy, but combined make it slightly more complex to do. That means there could be a good 8 to 12 month period of ASIC free mining. The optimization will happen with better cpu/gpu mining software. And yeah there will probably be some crazy super asic in the future, but that is down the road some time. Scrypt is beginning to see that super asic part.