I do remember GHash turmoil... :) Observing early monkey ASIC business those days - the ASIC Resistance idea was quite appealing then. Btw, Litecoin was in the top of the marketcap list only due to (betrayed) promise of ASIC Resistance...

Yeah, Bitcoin mining would be more decentralized (not leaving the pleb world behind) if staying somehow only GPU mineable: https://cointelegraph.com/news/satoshi-invented-gpu-mining-to-defend-the-network-says-early-dev