(1) We had a conversion with one developer from Avalanche blockchain yesterday about an infamous graph below.

Avalanche may indeed have so many validators voting at the same time but ADA follows design similar to $Algo, where there is a VRF function secured by SPOs in a VRF file https://twitter.com/r_gspan/status/1349505385011396610

(2) VRF function design by prof. @silviomicali which Ouroboros Praos adopted is very elegant because you have over 1400 validators but at given slot all of them are not voting.

SPOs!!! Protect your VRF file like your eyes, if they get compromised, we are done!

(3) We have really so many validators albeit in terms of network consensus you don't need to sync up so many validators between each other for block production, VRF design is super elegant. As if you had so many validators but you don't use them all at once for one block prod.

(4) Avalanche consensus mechanism is interesting study for researches for sure. My opinion is that it is not necessary to involve so many nodes in consensus. I would like to be proven wrong and I still like VRF approach which Algo and Ada share.

(5) Having said that, Avalanche has some interesting concepts for sure and is interesting blockchain overall (with a few shortcomings which I noticed - probably due to lack of sufficient funding). I like it way more than Dot.