On the other hand, we know for a fact that monero was launched with a deliberately reduced miner for the general public and an optimized miner for the devs. The original devs cashed out their huge profits and left the community holding bags. Luckily a team stepped up to take it over.
There was no "huge profit" for the original devs even. They might have made a little but if you take the total coins mined, subtract those mined by dga, and subtract those mined by people using the public miner (who still did quite well on it), there isn't a whole lot left.
I'm pretty sure the original devs did not expect the community to shove them out and fix the miner within a couple of months the way it played out and were caught unprepared. They likely wanted to use their optimized miner in secret for a long time, or perhaps more likely the whole "bitmonero" project (as with quazarcoin, fantomcoin, etc. etc.) was just a sham to crowd out clones and prop up their real scam, bytecoin (which did have an 82% premine). In fact they intended to merge mine bitmonero with bytecoin.
Still off topic though. Nice job obfuscating DRK's problems by rehashing early cryptonote history guys.