What is the win for a group to organize this? Is it an advertisement of capabilities to be sold? Training exercise?

Or is it so trivial to accomplish that a dedicated troll does it for the lulz? Given modern hardware I am flabbergasted at how often sites get hammered from legitimate traffic.

Waiting for Godot

Is there a trend of testing DDoS methods on FOSS websites now? Blender also had a DDoS attack in the last months.