I guess I don't even buy that CT is ineffective in real-time. If attacks don't happen because of the knowledge that misissuance would necessarily be publicly no

I guess I don't even buy that CT is ineffective in real-time. If attacks don't happen because of the knowledge that misissuance would necessarily be publicly noticed and then severely punished, then it seems your users have been protected against real-time attacks, even if that's an emergent social phenomenon rather than a protocol guarantee.