The thing you people need to realize is while the coin might not be capped anymore, the currency is very weakly inflationary as t-> infinity.
It is not a percent inflation, but rather a fixed amount of coins and in the future (number of new coins per year)/(total numbers of coins) goes to zero. If you include loss of coins it might even become deflationary if it becomes widely used and the monetary base is big enough.

In the end this change probably won't affect much at all (and might actually be a good idea to replace lost coins).