This fork first time was introduced in our new white paper, back then this story about ASIC was not actuel. We have scheduled a fork for this purpose and we cannot delay this. As I said few posts before we don't have an official statement on this.
ASIC is not flexible equipment, so let's do forks and kill them.
I don't want to offend ASIC miners, but honestly those such of specific-designed equipment create huge potential for 51% replay attacks due to potential dominant ASIC mining farms.
As we all know, replay attacks are the most terrible stuffs in crypto world.