Ok. You have a point about Choice Scarf for Healing Wish. I would still rather use something like Latias for HW, though, since the speed tier and bulk is better. Latias also gets Trick, which is quite handy on choice sets.
That aside, Specs is just better on Enam. It's far harder to switch into. The reason why I stated Tera Stellar is because that is the one thing that has real snowball potential with Scarf Enam, gimmick though it may be. Tera Ground is good, but any Scarf that isn't running Stellar is just lacking in juice.
Using a mon with less than 110 base speed for Scarf in this gen is very... Well, stuff like Tusk (even though it's more of a Net Dex thing) or Kyurem can work since they have power and bulk. But if you are going with paper defenses like Enam, it's kind of tragic to see yourself still get outsped by a Deo-S, BE speed Moth, Trailblaze Wellspring, or virtually every boosted mon that is actually fast this gen. And it's even worse if you don't run Timid because, let's face it, Scarf Timid hits like a wet paper bag by gen 9 OU standards.
Enamorus also gets revenge killed by most priority pretty easily, making the speed tier even less reliable. Many teams pack priority because of how threatening setup sweepers are this gen, so this isn't exactly a rare occurance.
You might wonder why Specs would be better when it isn't as fast. The point of specs is damage, though. The point of Scarf is speed, which is sabotaged by your sub base 110 speed and fragile constitution making you vulnerable to priority. With Specs, all that matters is that your opponent has trouble switching into it when you bring it on something slow. You play it like a kinda fast wall breaker.
Given how potent setup sweepers are this gen, Unaware is a pretty important ability. Most teams have physical attackers. Curse is a slow motion win condition. It's not that bad.
Big Don Bozo is such an easy pick. Though there are other candidates like Iron Crown and Iron (mid) Moth, Dondozo feels more MU fishy and less consistent in said matchups.
Even in SV OU, matchup consistency is sought after. Having multiple common matchups where you are deadweight is awful for your track record. There is a reason Zamazenta manages to be Top 3 in the metagame despite having multiple matchups where it is unable to make progress. Its bad matchups can be circumvented easily in the builder. It struggles with physically fat pivots, Pech, and others depending on the set, but that’s fine because Zama works well with several relevant breakers and mons that MU well into Pech anyways.
Dondozo’s shortcomings are harder to work around. Its over reliant on Rest to stay healthy. It’s very passive as many things can swap into Dozo and threaten it out, and it has no ways of forcing process. This severely limits the structures Dondozo finds itself on. Its either Stall or very specific Balance structures. It doesn’t help that Stall is bad in this current meta. Too many MU either crack open Stall like an egg, or outlast Stall.
I actually think Dozo should be running Covert Cloak more. This item means you never lose to Garg and you stop the Psynoise problem of preventing Rest without forcing the Tera Dark. You don't have to worry about any stat drops to your defenses, either. You can just sit in there with the Rest/Curse thing more easily.
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imo. don't get me wrong its not bad (I think everything ranked OU deserves it's OU status atm), Just feels like it completely thuds into gking balances, offenses have the tools to play around scarf between priority and booster mons that it doesn't outrun it naturally, making it fairly limited and specific. I think 
also has a good case but as exploitable as it is, can't really say it's the worst when screens and other cheese HO are the best playstyle in the meta.
