The initial goal was to try to remove the artificial scarcity and value of .com domains by opening up the field. This would also avoid the onslaught of startup

The initial goal was to try to remove the artificial scarcity and value of .com domains by opening up the field. This would also avoid the onslaught of startups with weird spellings of uncommon words because everything is being squatted. It would also permit per tld rules. For instance, you could require someone looking for say .salon to submit documentation showing they're a salon. So then sassysalon.com may be $15,000 but sassy.salon requires documentation that you're doing salon business and it's $10 because someone can't just squat on 10,000 of them and then auction it off. Noble goal and things like this are a consequence of it. It's fine