Limiter for a PA system

Never having to get near a system's limits is both the best protection, as well as best assurance for sonic fidelity.
In an ideal world yes.

Until costumers start using your floor monitors as mains, something they were never designed for. (in sense of continuous maxSPL and heat).

Which is the main problem.

You can design a nice sounding and balanced product, but as soon as the guy behind the mixing table decides to completely torture that with some horrible EQ settings, you are very happy that you build in some proper protection.

But yeah, in that case you also want to make sure you have plenty of headroom left.
They go hand in hand, therefor I always find these generic non-active speakers performing meh at best.
 
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I think the explanation is pretty clear and obvious and it directly gives an answer to the topic starter.
Except that it isn't. You're too eager to make yourself sound smart and completely missed the fact that the OP didn't ask about using the compressor in this unit he asked about using limiters. If he had asked about using the compressor I would have suggested bypassing/disabling it beause it's the wrong tool for the job and has more cons than pros in this implementation.

My response spoke to using the limiters(plural) which are on the outputs and are almost the last item in the signal chain, all points you and others completely overlooked in your rush to criticize.
 
Rental contracts don't differ in principle over price ranges and brands, so the point you're trying to make isn't there. The customer is responsible

Apart from that, you're so off: the system with 32 15" for example I mentioned is this one -> https://www.lambda-labs.com/en/references/wall-of-bass . It's a world record candidate individual installation by the premium brand Lambda Labs. You won't find anything more "high end" than that.
In the dry hire front, apart from d&b, which I've already mentioned, I've for example worked with L'Acoustics. Again, doesn't get more "high end" than that.

You're too eager to make yourself sound smart

and/or important, and you've failed. But thank you for outing yourself - always good to gather a list of users to not spend unnecessary time on in the future. Though I must say, this list would be extremely extensive in this forum, and that's why I average like 1 post a month here - this place is filled to the brim with know-nothing knowitalls, and it's just not worth it.