I am pretty sure that the Eth boys are still not very transparent in regards to how many coins there are exactly, including but not limited to that early 2014 premine. The supply question has never really been very verifiable as far as I have understood.. but the Eth folks seem to consider that to not really be much of a problem.
Wasn't there some verify the block questions that even came 6-12 months earlier than their other stupid ass 2022 movement into POS, which should have gotten people understanding that ethereum was constantly changing itself without much for parameters or even straight-forwardness in regarding whatever new thing it had decided to become..
I think that Vitalik&Co have no worries about such things because they realized a long time ago that they can do whatever they want without losing support. In addition, what beginners object to the most when it comes to BTC is the max supply, because they think that 21 million coins are too few, and that if there were more coins, they could buy them at a lower price.
In other words, the ETH team is proud that it has its own leader, that ETH is much cheaper than BTC and that there is no max supply - and for many it is therefore much easier to become the owner of 1 ETH than 1 BTC - because in the end it all comes down to numbers, right?