Isn’t that just the other side of the same coin?

It’s the top 1% that is pushing for the short term gains… It’s being accelerated because everyone else and their pension funds try to match or beat them at it…

I understood the comment as “leave the port open to ssh, to easily allow fail2ban to hit the ip’s before they get through your full port range.” But thanks for the elaborate answer :)

I agree, what you described is much more work ;)

By all means, I am no expert, but isn’t it “just” the fail2ban?