Excellent rebuttal. It's a shame that it is needed against the FUD.
Good to hear that other potential algo solutions are being researched to permanently mitigate the ASIC problem. People have to realize that DGB does not have unlimited budgets and it takes time to research and implement these changes but if ASIC's can get kicked out of the game for good, it's worth to wait for it.
There's a problem with your line of thought. DGB is not the single best solution for fast transactions anymore, it WAS.
The longer the dev team wait to implement changes, the worse it will be.
This coin had a great exposure and adoption back when it was trully decentralized. All the dev team had to do was to keep it that way. Sadly what really happened is that they got lazy (to say the least).
I don't even think a hardfork for new algos will save this coin anymore. You'll need to do that and something much bigger if you want to take one of the top 10 cryptocurrencies now.