Haha! STDs for Monero devs! The analogy is funny.

You got it, the finality layer is complex and needs a lot of conditions to be done right, and it's outsourcing security to another network, not great.

I don't think that the current BTC POW is that elegant though. Mining rewards are declining, and the fees are not coming. So the security budget is declining at each halving. At some point, mining hashrate will decrease, because miners run a business, and BTC will also be open for the same kinds of disruptions.
I once wrote an article on the topic.

He was using moneroocean, I am not sure if he moved to something else now.

Xenu was using moneroocean and you can actually visually see the bump in hash on mining pool stats when he started.
It's true that this effort would have been even better if we had a way to outbid the hostile mining pool when they start their attack.
This is still a valid and valuable effort IMO.

Xenu is not a rando.
He is the host of antimoonboy, a well known Monero focused podcast.
For this Monero Defense fund, he was using moneroocean and you can actually visually see the bump in hash on mining pool stats when he started.

I am using a new wallet for this, I don't actually plan on using the cents I will receive there.
Using the smaller pools is an interesting idea, I might try that later on

Did you read the post?

Or do you mean that Monero is not for this or that group because they don't have brains?

Thanks! Please share it far and wide