It's unreasonable to expect any coin to be developed without a premine.
Absolutely false. There are plenty of good coins out there without a premine.
If you are dead set against all premines that is your prerogative, nevertheless it's unreasonable to expect that to be the industry norm.
I'm seeing a ton of coins going down primarily because of a lack of interest.
Who do you expect to talk up the coin -- the miners? Everyone reasonably expects that whoever created the coin take on some level of leadership role to guide the ship when it needs guiding, to motivate the team when the team needs motivating, and to do what he must do to move that exchange value up -- when no leader exists or when the leader sees that x, y, and z miners literally have 2 or 3x what he has he figures heck you have more coins than me you go and talk to the exchanges, you make a faucet, you make the website, you talk to the media, you create the giveaways, you take the technical questions, let me do some mining ...
The community will talk up a coin if it has value. Look at Vertcoin. No premine. The dev instead created something unique with some degree of innovation. People bought the coin and talk it up because they believe in it, not because some dev bribes people with coins that are then dumped on an exchange.
Even if you only have a CPU the advantage you'll get from being one of the first miners is enough of a reward. Unless of course you plan to not have decreasing block rewards and changes in difficulty.
Amazing how people look at and value the time and energy of others.
Who pays for management, who pays for organization, who pays for distribution, who pays for marketing, who pays for the coins in the giveaways, who pays for concept, who pays for design, who pays for development, who pays for outreach -- you see the type of maze one must negotiate if all of the ducks are aligned right the first time.
If a coin is not premined it isn't because they don't have costs, its because someone choose to absorb those costs. That behavior of chronic absorption of development costs has given you and very many others a skewed entitlement view of what goes into coin development.
You know there are costs involved in everything that you do, if necessary was done and you didn't pay for it, and there are no back-end taxes or fees to pay for it later, how do you see that as a fair or equitable system?