This is a fantastic post and I'm glad to see you're passionate in your beliefs
I propose the following solution:

Create a client specifically for those exchanges to deal with CRT in lots of 1K. This will help users feel like they've got a large number of coins regardless of the price.
E.g. Someone trying to sell 4 Billion CRT @ 1 sat will work out at 4,000,000,000 / 1000 * 0.00000001 = 0.04BTC.

This will give CRT a chance on all markets, it will give buyers of CRT lots of coins and will allow for more liquidity. There would be no need for hard forks which is messy and I want to avoid in any case.

If the community feels like I should go ahead with this proposed solution then I will go ahead and build the client.