yeah but there's a lot more to the expiring domain market than the top 5 names that drop each day.
As it stands at the moment yes Pool has a huge market share, but if you want you can start a registry and get an RRP connect, and perhaps even start a few. If you put in the work and had some resources you could compete against pool. Well some of the well financed players already certainly could.
With WLS, Verisign gets a monopoly, and everyone knows how everything VRSN touches turns to crap
I'm not opposed to WLS, because I can't really be bothered trying to compete with Pool, they're so far ahead, and I think I'll probably do better under WLS.
I just think there are good arguments on both sides.