Somewhat agree. Unfortunately what did change is that the episode revealed that many in this community, including unfortunately the lead developers, are not committed to the unique attributes of the coin and willing to throw all that under the bus as soon as people start crying about the price. That is a fundamental negative. Ideally they would walk some of that back, but even so the damage is done.
What unique attributes are the developers not committed to?
He's referring to the developers being open to the idea of changing the consensus rules to change the initial distribution.
The initial distribution was (is?) unique.