Making the coin scarce is only for the short-sighted. It will make the coin quickly become one for only the elite to have. Look at Bitcoin! Besides, it doesn't even change anything in the short term anyway!
Look, a mild inflation which this coin would have (and it wouldn't look like that crazy chart!) is healthy! As more of the public become involved with cryptos, they will take up much more of the inflationary slack than is created. This allows the coin to be accessible way into the future! There will be plenty of demand still. You can hard cap it at 84 million, and let the formula do the rest and I bet it will still take until 2084 to get to that cap.
This is rewards over hash rate, and you already can see how fast our hash rate has been increasing. I really think changing the setup would be unwise and short sighted!
I agree that with TanteStefana. I don't think we actually have a supply problem - we want the coin to continue to grow - remember that we >anticipate< a much greater demand in the future. The rewards system already decreases the coin with increasing network hash capacity - annual reductions really serve to discourage future miners, IMHO. I don't know that is what we want - but I'm not the one with the economics degree!
I think the current target of 49M is reasonable given the number of people who will (hopefully) be adopting it. If it becomes too scarce, the price rises to the point where we get more speculation than commerce. While that favors early adopters, including myself, I think that in the long run a nice, stable value will be more of an asset than a continually climbing price.
EDIT: OMG! I leave for work, a discussion and decision ensue!
I finally got to the end of the thread and ... I think it will all work out. If anything, I think Camosoul's point is important: whatever is (was) decided, it can't take too much more tweaking... Stability, or at least predictability, is probably the most important thing. Complex systems tend to find their own equilibrium, although it is often not predictable.