Doog, not sure if you read my entire post, but I don't advocate leaving things as they are necessarily. What I was getting at is that changes are not necessarily bad as long as they are made in order to preserve the fairness of the coin and its core principles, and not its monetary value. The changes that were implemented that you speak of were done in that manner, and that's ok.
My suggestion as a solution was to restrict large commercial entities with access to other people's addy's from digging, like exchanges and gambling sites. That was not the intent of the distribution model and is not fair to average joes, especially ones whose addy's the exchanges would use to dig. I was hoping you would chime in as to the feasibility of "isolating" such digs, technically speaking. Is it possible?