"Don't invest in a home security system before you make sure your house has a door"

Something tells me those taking objection to my comment are missing the point that I am criticizing the parent....

If your counterexample is just reinforcing the parents erroneous point that WAFs only protect against specific applications with known vulnerabilities, and that not all websites have "doors", then you are missing the point that many WAFs have detectors for fairly generic sql injection and path traversal techniques that could very well find problems with even custom application endpoints....

I'm one of a whole bunch of reviewers for Black Hat USA, which is the largest vulnerability research conference in the industry. For the past several years, if you were to submit a universal WAF bypass talk, enabling you to evade detection by every WAF on the market for every common attack, there is a really good chance that talk would not be accepted --- too boring. Almost certainly a WAF bypass that evaded all detection by a single WAF vendor wouldn't make the cut.

So, no, not really interested in generic SQL detection rules in WAFs.

More like, "Don't invest in home security, because your most precious valuables are stored in a safety deposit box at a bank, and everything else is covered by home insurance."