The reward is not the issue. More people will buy, hold, stake and not keep coins on exchange, day trade, sell once they see that you are legit i.e. demonstrate some long term commitment to the coin by developing publishing roadmap. The longer you delay this the more doubt will lead to coins being dumped, ending up in the hands of whales, the less even the distribution will be and less staking will occur.

At the moment 15 of top 30 wallets staking, minimum transactions on the block chain and yet economy is not able to run efficiently because of specifics of POS?  Also, you are not only asking people to stake, but to go through the convoluted process of regularly splitting their inputs? Also, I am not a code guy, but people have been suggesting since the beginning that there appears to be a correlation between transaction velocity and block generation with this coin, and the latest issues seem to empirically back that up.

Lots of coins wait months to arrive Bittrex, some never achieve it.  You have the backing of a community already, one member built are website, another is building faucet for this coin, and 10 people are waiting in Slack channel to discuss, an opportunity is being missed here. Let's move forward.