@ScarletArrow "Is there a difference between surf and wakeboard boats?" Short answer - no. The big difference is in the use. How many wakeboarders do you know who are capable of utilizing the full ballast a boat is equipped with? Honest answer is few to none for most boaters. I wakeboard 75% and ski 25%. Our surf board is used to foot from.
But, anybody can go out on the biggest boat made by the inboard manufactures and fill the ballast to the gills. There is no need to put in time, crashes, effort into working you way into using the big wave. On day 1 of ownership they are out there throwing everything the boat is capable of making, and learning on the fly.
I'm onboard with addressing the potential impact from surf boats. Just wish wakeboarding wasn't being dragged along with it. Bow high plowing with full ballast makes a bigger wave than planed-out ballasted wakeboarding.