I'm pessimistic about AEON's price in the long term, say 5 years from now. AEON is insufficiently differentiated from Monero to have much chance of benefiting from it's own network effect.
I'd be in favor of doing something with AEON that Monero won't do, such as sticking with an ASIC-friendly approach.
Agreed, and I suggested that before the
ASIC killing hardfork, but the whole community was against centralization and the industrialization of Aeon mining. The
hobby miners also did not want their
golden goose taken away from them.
It was a missed chance for Aeon to secure more hashrate and become the one of the most secure among most altcoins.