You are giving these script kiddies far too much credit. The authors of the tools they use may try to implement honeypot detection, but that's fruitless cat &

You are giving these script kiddies far too much credit. The authors of the tools they use may try to implement honeypot detection, but that's fruitless cat & mouse game, and to what end? Assuming "honeypot" based on latency is a fool's errand because many legitimate things can induce latency.