Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that if aeon is to be XMR Lite then there should be more overlap in the XMR/Aeon usage and mining ecosystems? i.e. single wallet, single miner etc that can do both?
Quite a lot of mining software already support AEON, since modifications to the original CryptoNight algorithm are trivial (i.e. the memory buffer size and the loop iteration count). Here are some examples: