> Good whales will fight bad whales as an inevitable form of power dominance and we will see alliances, politics, betrayals and injustices. To me this is pretty much the scenario we have now.

This really isn't the scenario we have now. There isn't some sort of hidden whale war going on behind the scenes. Except for one or two anonymous individuals, whales have a fairly open discussion that identify vulnerabilities and exploits and possible solutions. It is not uncommon for a whale to openly complain of a vulnerability and open exploit it maximally at the same time. Others will try to battle this exploit in a game of armaments. But this is not war, it is a war game where the system protocol is the battlefield. The results are protocol improvements that create a system with greater integrity.

War games are critical to improving the protocol. It is one thing to concoct hypothetical scenarios and it is quite another to allow the players to try to make havoc and identify vulnerabilities empirically rather than theoretically.