As one of the only alts to try and develop a unique infrastructure before announcing yourselves, I think there are plenty of people happy to give you the time you need.

Rapid adjustment can, on the one hand, simply allow any attackers or hopping pools to push the diff even higher before abandoning the coin again.  I wish I had better input to give but I'm stumped by this one - as long as it's coins vs miners it seems most other types of development and innovation are going to have to stop (or at least slow way down) until someone figures out a long term fix for this.

In the meantime a sudden attempt to hard-fork someone else's coin while the dev is still actually working with it is a pretty lame-ass maneuver.