"PROBABLY" not accidental.
I'm glad we now agree that the instamine was probably not accidental. Good decision! It was probably untenable to trying to scam new investors with the claim it was all a big accident and, "Whoops! I instamined again!".
For anyone following along
1. Evan had at least two years of experience with crypto before launching Dash. There was no "lack of experience" as you claim. (Your statement about what "caused mistakes to be made" was opinion, by the way. I'm glad we have agreed to exclude opinion from this thread.)
2. Evan stated months ahead of the launch that he was working on a "for-profit" coin launch.
3. Evan deliberately withheld the development and feature plans until after the end of the instqamine.
4. Evan misled people about the launch schedule, launching much earlier than promised. During the first hour, over 500000 coins were mined, and in 8 hours, over a million coins.
5. Evan later cut the mining rewards and coin supply, increasing the effective size of the instamine by a factor of four or more.
6. In total, the instamine of 2 million coins represents over approximately 30% of the current supply of Dash.
7. "Official Communication" from Dash blaming the instamine on inherited Litecoin code (which is factually false).
8. Dash ANN OP claiming the coin was "fairly and transparently launched".
EDIT: corrected for new current supply