... can't succeed
LoL ! You wish.
I think your newfound buzzword "social contract"'s got you a bit over excited.
Really now. It seems the concept of social contract has been well known in the Monero community for some time
3. This causes no permanent change so it has less "social contract" issues. Once the end of the flattening period is reached everything is just exactly as it always was. This is probably the positive action that can be taken with the least reputation harm. Not zero necessarily, but everything else is worse.
I'm still undecided on whether anything should be changed.
In the end of course we decided to honor the social contract and not slow down emissions, unlike Dash. It was never even under consideration to do a blatant money grab for early adopters by slashing the money supply. That's obscene.