The raising of collateral is a good idea.
I hope people understand that raising the collateral doesn't mean getting the same rewards, and that raising the rewards mean more coins will be generated per day. No.
Raising the collateral to i.e. 25000 means you get 5x the rewards you'll get from a 5000 collateral. But since there will be fewer masternodes, it means that the increase in rewards is the result from the daily reward being distributed to a smaller number of masternodes.
If anything, this helps the price a lot making VPS fees worth it. I personally voted for 50k, but hey 25k is fine.
The thing here is, people are saying "What if the price goes down again?"
You're assuming that this is the only tech release they have. They already finished the prototype of the IPFS feature, and it works as seen on their livestream. When the product is released with the GUI, partnerships come along with this and also exchange listings as big exchanges require a use case for the coin(CHECK), and legal papers for the team, which the team is already currently working on(CHECK).