Sorry for jumping into this conversation, F.O.G. here, and I remember back in the day when we used to run stock motors, hand outs, and things of that ilk (this was back in the day when all motors for R.O.A.R. were brushed), we used to do all sorts of things to make the motors as fast as possible, from the reckless like taking a sewing needle and jamming it into the windings of an armature and clipping it off to try to lessen the amount of "turns" on the motor (this was never consistent, I admit to trying it once on the club level in practice), modifying the brushes to change the timing a little bit (pretty much everyone did this in spec stock classes), and/or turning the armature to as small as possible (your goal was to have the motor "bird nest" as you crossed the finish line in your main, I also know people who did this with the old mubuchi sealed can 540 motors). Cheating has been around forever, also two of these things people may not consider cheating, modifying the brushes, turning an armature? We practically turned our armatures after every race, after every practice session, brushes would be honed to match and/or changed as they started to changed color. I am not going to sit here and say that these things are ok. Being completely honest, as I am trying to get back into the hobby I am lost on what a "blinky" esc is. However one thing I know for sure is that bending the rules, and outright breaking the rules has been around forever, and exists in every form of sport. I do find it both interesting and intriguing to see what people come up with to live within the rules but bend them to the maximum possible level, sometimes that extends into breakage. I am not saying that I am encouraging cheating, however it takes someone who is pretty smart to find the loopholes in the rules, then exploit them. From there the ruling body needs to decide what to do, allow it to continue, make rules against it, who knows what they will choose. This is why sports like F1 have statements about things that may be following the letter of the rule but not the spirit of the rule.

To simplify this, like most things, it is the old mouse trap scenario (or idiot if you want to go there) when you build a better mouse trap, they build a better mouse (or your make something idiot proof, they build a better idiot).