This is not going to be popular but I have to say I like that. I think that serves people right for being lazy. I mean that fee at least incentivizes miners to do their research about what to mine instead of pretty much ruinning the prices of coins they don't even know existed. There are 4 quark coins being mined by yaamp and the combined daily volume of those coins are below 2 BTC and they are all going down:
Miners don't care about coins, they care about what is most profitable. When a new algo hits GPU miners (if it was only a CPU miner before) it will take a dive till the market reaches equilibrium with other mineable algos, like x11. The same goes for ASICs. When Scrypt hit ASICs it did the same exact thing. I don't think people who make algos realize how much influence they have on market values. It's all based around efficiency and hash per unit (like a 970).
Curiously are there any plans for improved support for Cryptonote? The algo is still quite healthy as is the market and the last update was from TSIV quite some time ago.