The core of the argument is that the designer should be more skilled than the attacker, and you don't know who the attacker is going to be. So that leads to a c

The core of the argument is that the designer should be more skilled than the attacker, and you don't know who the attacker is going to be. So that leads to a championship mentality. Given that DCI appears to have outsmarted the IOTA developers here, it's not a crazy attitude.