It has been said from the start that this is explicitly not a pump and dump coin. The devs frankly don't spend a lot of time thinking about the short term price action. The market will find an equilibrium and whatever that equilibrium price happens to be, "price times quantity" wlll allow you to hold and/or spend this coin in the desired amount. Whether that is 10 coins at 0.001 or 1 coin at 0.01 makes little real difference.
If you are looking a coin to be pumped up the for short term gains it may well be that DRK or XC are better for you. That won't work long term anyway. Pick any parameters you want, tweak them to game out an advantage as many times you want, but if the coin is not useful it will sooner or later still be worth exactly zero. Likewise if the coin is or becomes useful it will maintain and gain value regardless of the exact parameters, as explained above.
If you are looking a coin to be pumped up the for short term gains it may well be that DRK or XC are better for you. That won't work long term anyway. Pick any parameters you want, tweak them to game out an advantage as many times you want, but if the coin is not useful it will sooner or later still be worth exactly zero. Likewise if the coin is or becomes useful it will maintain and gain value regardless of the exact parameters, as explained above.
100% support this. Virtually every other altcoin has some kind of scam element that leads to it being criticized. One of the strongest differentiating traits of Monero is its clean launch. Changing the emission now would remove that strength. (That said I do support changing to two minute block times with the emission per block adjusted to maintain the same curve in order to reduce orphans.) As eizh said upthread, the fast emission now will actually result in a slower emission and the presumed increased valuation that folks are craving a year from now. In the mean time, Monero is taking good steps to build on its base, including the partnership with i2p, pool development, GUI wallet development, and possibly an android wallet. All of these will help to draw in new users and presumably support the price.
