I'd recommend moving on to another coin that doesn't have the baggage, and I do recommend that when people ask me.
I'm not a fan of the whole idea of masternodes, nor a fan of PoS coins, so the tech has nothing to interest me, but if I were I would clone DRK and relaunch it clean the way we did with Monero.
If you launch a new coin and it becomes successful, then after a year you will again have people whining they weren't there at the launch or didn't get to buy 10k coins for 0.25 BTC. The more successful it is, the more whine there will be.
As I said, I'm not interested in doing it, but if someone did it competently and without fraud then there wouldn't be a few million coins mined in a few days in complete disregard for the published schedule. Sure there might be other problems, but not that one.
Much as you might like, might try to draw false equivalences or declare something quite recent by cryptocurrency standards to be ancient history, you DRKers are never going get out from under it. Fruit of the poison tree.