One concern is that the effectiveness of eventual auditing depends heavily on how robust that auditing process is. If the archival records are incomplete or the audit process is not thorough, then the protocol may fail to catch bad actors, making the promised transparency a bit of a mirage.
This is a critique of the Conspiracy Protocol's attempt to mitigate against the corrosive effect of cliques: - Clique Conundrum
# See - Hitchhiker Trust Model and the Conspiracy Protocol