Replies are obviously going to happen but let's keep it civil...it's better in the long run for sure.
Two cents...
I agree, as someone holding this coin, for the moment, I am concerned about the faster miners. No point in mining this if some can mine 6x faster, this needs to be fixed or it will screw up distribution. I am going to scale out a little tonight and hope somehow a miner gets released, as this coin is very interesting. If the distribution gets too messed up, that won't matter however. This is a serious concern. Short term price and volume isn't an issue, distribution is a major one.
FPGA may become a reality if this coin gets big enough - I wrote a nice implementation of Whirlpool that uses no lookup tables at all.