If we burn:
- Everyone hardforks and chain is completely re-calibrated (hardcap must be redone or the chain will never reach the 50B intended Cap)
- This will cause delay in development as there will need to be time put in for updating, upgrading all nodes and informing all exchanges, service providers of hardfork.
- The Devs go back to raising funds for giveaways and promotions as we would all only have our personal balances like before and hence why there were little bounties ever tied to this, everything else was given away
- On the positive the chain will payout longer before hardcapping.
If we DONT burn:
- Development can focus on features and updates
- The chain technically would have picked up where it left off (as ESP2 was premined the same amount as ESP1 will be mined out to as of the end of swap date)
- Unswapped Espers2 would go into a community voted upon "trust" address. Where they would sit in stasis only being scraped at for community agreed upon faucets, giveaways, competitions and such (THIS WOULD BE A COMMUNITY FUND)
- Overall market value doesn't become affected as the unswapped coins will never be spent by the dev team in any markets yet current and new users would benefit from being able to run faucets and the like.
After a quick read-through, I'm leaning more towards NOT burning. The positives seem to outweigh those of burning - and a community fund would undoubtedly benefit the coin & community
if properly utilized. Burning ESP seems to be way too much effort for not much reward. Why go back to raising funds (if choosing to burn) when we could have a trust address filled with ESP? Those coins could be used for bringing in new members as stated above - giveaways (and faucets, promos, etc.) is what made ESP so popular in the first place

Waiting to hear other's input before I keep blabbering!