In general if you're coming from a "clean" IP your difficulty won't be very high. In the future if these systems coordinate with each other in some way (DHT?) then it should make it possible to drop the baseline difficulty even further.
That's a perfect tool for monopolists to widen their moat even more.
In line with how email is technically still federated and distributed, but practically oligopolized by a handfull of big-tech, through "fighting spam".