No we aren't stop fear-mongering. We can easily add a new pubkey and setup a new server.

Checkpoint servers are a contentious issue anyway.. some people are for and some against. You'll find the vast majority of coins these days have no checkpoint servers. My best guess is because the devs don't really understand them.

The biggest issue people have is it creates centralization. They are ideal to have with a new coin, However once a coin has aged and has a high difficulty its not such an issue because the coin becomes nearly impossible to attack.

Bottlecaps falls somewhere in the middle. It's difficulty keeps rising and it will only continue to do so to the point where an attack is virtually impossible.