I'm afraid that with crippled algo and growing hashrate of botnets this coin has no bright future.
The price is already going down.
There are still mining more than 900 worker suprnova.cc and more than 400 on pool.mn. This Coin will have his time...i'm for sure. its mostly the same with new coins. after 1 to 2 week the price goes down because some miners are selling there coins.
But as you have said, the algo and the hashrate are big problems for tiny miners like us.