Everything has been investigated, debated and re-debated for years now. I appreciate that everyone has an opinion, but not everyone has been involved since nearly the beginning, nor understands everything involved at the same level. It's definitely the right thing to do.
Is that the same people/group debating and doing the thinking that's responsible for the high inflation too? Where is your elitist circle having discussions exactly? Would love to witness that fun. You have failed before more than once #justsayin'
Satoshi is the one who decided on Bitcoin's high inflation rate in the early years, which I believe was (wisely) done to distribute the currency widely; Bitcoin, or any currency, is more valuable the more users it has.
Development discussions currently happen on the IRC channel for Bitcoin, the development mailing list, the /r/bitcoin subreddit at Reddit, and this very forum (more serious discussions usually are to be found in the Development & Technical section).