Bringing up an point I haven't seen discussed before...
DRK's "ASIC resistance."
Pretty much any maths will be ASICable. I think the real resistance is in the difficulty increases. ASICs will still be possible, but at the rate DRK increases difficulty, huge, exclusionary prices will never make sense. If/when DRK reaches penetration like BTC and LTC, where it makes sense for someone to try making an ASIC for it, they'll have no choice but to keep it affordable due to the diff and it won't consolidate as much as the other cryptos.
Can someone offer more thoughts on this? Maybe it's already been discussed and I just missed it in this deep thread...
This has actually already been discussed a bunch, but I don't blame you for not digging through 800 pages.
IMO, ASICs are inevitable if X11 gets popular enough that companies are willing to invest in it. eduffield (the dev) said he is actually expecting ASICs in 2-3 years time to stabilize the network, it's just "ASIC resistant" now because there are no ASIC companies investing in X11. X11 does nothing to purposely obfuscate how ASICs can be developed for it (as opposed to scrypt-n).