It also levels the playing field against three letter agencies who might otherwise have access to equipment regular people doesn't have.
Incorrect. Could have
the opposite effect, unless the ASICs are ubiquitous, i.e. on every motherboard as I suggested might be the case for example if everyone is using AES encryption.
I don't understand why anyone would want something ASIC resistant as PoW. Heeello botnets.
Botnets are only a significant concern
while the mining usage is small.
And that applies whether your Pow is designed to be ASIC resistant or not. However it perhaps does beg for making the GPU at roughly power efficiency parity to the CPU.