I'll admit it is still problematic. But at least there is only 1 gatekeeper instead of 2.

How is that better?

You can focus all of your energy into strengthening and testing a single point of the system instead of having to do it for many.

	▲	esseph 15 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You're grasping for straws a bit here. This is already done for ssh as the defacto remote access mechanism for a very long time.