I agree you should be able to access any BTC you consider yours. If you’re willing to peel the coin to do so, I don’t see any problem with it. It is up to nonnakip to put in the work to make this happen though, and I’m not sure how much time he has for things like that. I did offer to match donations made to him for development a while back to try and entice him to add more developments like this but nobody ever took me up on it. I can only do what I can do. If users wanted to vote to donate a portion of the savings it would likely be possible for many more coins to hit the threshold that way to trigger their distributions.

As for when coins will hit the threshold, every one is different. It depends on a number of factors. Many of the coins have received distributions and all of the distribution data and amounts held under the threshold are all public.