No, they're the good head flippers in the story; they simply got lucky, someone had to, random doesn't mean no one wins, it means the winner wins by chance.
> Firstly, nobody believes that Proof of Work is here to stay
Plenty of people believe that, it's dishonest to say otherwise. You can state your beliefs without trying to speak for everyone else and thus avoiding the inevitable straw man argument such proclamations lead to. Don't misrepresent the other side.
There is, tribalism, and his tribe's political beliefs have decided it's fake, so he'll rationalize that however he must.