Such discussions have already taken place with introduction of rev. 3. We have globals points and hardware points.
Global points are meant to be like this and always were. You should remember how ORB Hall of Fame looked like back then. Every time a new CPU hit the market it was guys like FUGGER, Shamino and others who ripped the rankings. They runned Vapochill/LN2 cooled chips like the newly announced Thoroughbred-B, P4 3.0, P4 XE, AMD Hammer, FX-55/57 and so on. I'm sure you didn't see "new members , with current gen systems , even high-end" in ORB's top10. Because it was about lots of tweaking, h/w modifications, cooling and ... top grade just released hardware.
This is what global rankings are about - a point-rewarded representation of ORB HoF.
OTOH we have hardware points. Yet again, it does rely on having the top CPU for high-end GPU benching (look at 12 just for example with his nice Haswell-E results). But low-end GPUs and 2D CPUs rely mostly on your skills and cooling.
Globals are easy come easy go points. You have to work really hard to stay high in the rankings. What I see is members are more complaining about "why do I have high-end hardware and can't have many points easily?". Go get some obscure or rare hardware, bench it and you'll have easy points, but a few. Work hard and you'll have global points with your hardware but they'll last till the next release. It's how it always have worked.
Obscure or old school categories don't rely on having "special hardware" and this is the way I always point to such members. No easy points on HWBot
As for those who got the hardware from a store or for a review - they'll have their points for say a week and will be moved out by the Pros who have skills and equipment for modding, cooling and running it in their high-end test bed. History will cycle here.