Your Post is reasonable, but you won't get a logical reply from illogical people that support PoW flawed design.
What does it sound more "logical", as you say, to you? Rewarding someone with new coins if they prove that they did a costly process or rewarding someone with new coins if they prove they own coins? Honestly, besides the arguments that have been numerous times told, what sounds more
rational to you?
If I was a person who didn't know what's a cryptocurrency, I'd suggest that the latter lacks in some parts, even if I couldn't indicate where exactly. My common sense would say that there's something problematic.
Common Sense would be listening to
repeated warnings.
Bitcoin PoW supporters deny all PoW ban warning as fud, as you can see from the pic by nonce.
Kind of like the claims that the China PoW ban was fud and would never happen,
until it did.