Ian, summed up most of what I would say very nicely. So heres some dot points of what else I wanted to say:
1. It's not broken. It's Uncompetitive: characterized by a desire to avoid fair competition. It seems no one disagrees it's uncompetitive, people who are against banning its only arguments are about usage and complex bans.
2. Why would Glowbro be suspected? You would simply be banning the ability. Which is exactly what we did with sand veil, we didn't ban chomp lol.
3. Kings rock was banned because it was broken and uncompetitive, Sand veil and bright-powder were banned because they were uncompetitive, these were not even remotely broken this gen.
4. Why are you acting like it is such a slippery slope, like if we ban these uncompetitive items all of a sudden we are going to ban other gimmicks such as FEAR strats. We vote on bans through majority we can draw the line wherever we deem necessary.
Did you not read my post?
- There's plenty of stuff that is strictly uncompetitive that also isn't banned. My entire post is about that. Banning something merely for possessing a random element has never been how smogon operates and I can bring up countless examples if the examples I gave aren't good enough.
- Sand Veil is on more than one Pokemon. My post also addresses that.
- Sand Veil and Bright Powder are quite a bit better than Glowbro (you can run bright powder on any Pokemon, and hippowdon/garchomp are much, much better than Glowbro. And Garchomp sacrifices next to nothing to run sand veil: there's no opportunity cost) which my post also addresses.
- It's a slippery slope because there's no proof whatsoever that it's even minutely strong. The reason people argue about usage is because if the mon is so strong, it would be reflected in winrates, or tour usage, or ladder usage, but it's not' the inverse s true.