I tend to deal with how things are. We also once allowed unlimited reverts and had the US flag as our logo what of it?
We never allowed edit wars.
Indeed. Just because we didn't have a specific limit on how many reverts doesn't mean we allowed an unlimited number. It was left to common sense and the judgement of admins, I guess (I wasn't very active in those days) - the site has grown since then, and common sense doesn't work as well as it used to...