Because the crypto world needs another LTC clone, right? We haven't watched enough of those come and go already? It's not that hard to set up your rigs to mine scrypt-n, and NO, it doesn't damage anything.

As for your previous comment: YES this should help stop a forkfest on the launch. Scrypt-n means we won't have multipools dropping 50ghs on it as soon as it's compiled. Would you rather have an instamined clusterfuck?