jimlite: what would have been the issue with leaving the block multiplier of 10,000 in effect? What's the difference between having 1 billion and 10 trillion coins in circulation? In the end it's just a movement of the decimal place. DOGE would have been successful with 100 trillion instead of 100 billion coins. It is meaningless.

Like I said it is a moot point, but I'm curious, why do you think they needed to take action at all? I've convinced myself that moving the decimal place would have been the most fair and least destructive solution and wouldn't have required a hard fork like the actual solution or your first two proposals.