Monero folks decided not to touch the emission curve while it was discussed for long period (I was against keeping emission like it is now personally).
The main argument was, it creates people trust not to change the emission.

Did you Darkcoin change the emission?

I have to admit their pump is impressive (after all, it is approaching LTC), however I am doubtful if it will last. In crypto there are sudden pumps followed by bloody dumps. Some time ago Auroracoin costed some serious money and now it is crab.
The pump costs a lot of money and if there is no network effect, the money is wasted. However, pumps potentially creates network effects and Dark has now its momentum. We will see if it will last.

I am not so technical so I am not that interested in if coin is premine/instamine etc as long as there is at least some kind of development going on or people in the world that know how to develope a coin. I do not call instamines scams necessarily (Monero is kind of instamine but much slower phase than some other coins).

I am DRK virgin myself and not going to buy a coin that I am not used to own or a coin that has some serious scam alerts/trolling all around.
Monero sure had its trolling but it was mainly focused on Risto's personality and his taste of cigars.