To be fair, speed bumps work. If it's actually speed bumping nefarious activity, that gives authorities more time to react.
The correct place to police rogue nucleotides is at the labs. Not the compute layer.
Yea. To slow you down. They don't prevent you from getting somewhere.
Again, yeah. That's how fences work, too. And alarm systems. Pretty much anything that isn't foolproof. Pointing out that a defence is surmountable isn't a rejection of it per se.
Having no safeguards is probably safer than having safeguards which do nothing but create a false sense of security.