Great post. Disclosure: I did indeed vote to delist Moo! Wrapper. However, for those of you worried about an all-out witch hunt on other BOINC projects, let it henceforth be known:

I will staunchly support even the so-called "less-useful" projects like Collatz and SETI. Although pretty dang speculative, a positive result on one of these projects would have huge implications. Not only that, but negative results from these projects would be useful too -- not detecting E.T. despite decades-long searches would be an important empirical observation.

High-risk, high-return research gets little to no funding from governments and corporations. That is why Gridcoin and BOINC are needed to support these kinds of projects.