Ben wrote:

I'm just saying that I preferred the old competitive method. Why
couldn't that have been incorporated into Boinc?

You can still compete with the new units. Instead of "number of WUs" you now have "amount of integer and floating point calculations" in units of Cobblestones.

There are even "add-ons" sites that take the Berkeley Cobblestone numbers and present all manner of pretty graphs and graphics. Enough to make any competition statistician weep with joyful confusion!

All good fun,
Martin