Devs of the project should do 1 thing, while the coin is still somewhat alive, change the algo from this nonsense heatburner to something that is not core based, but based on memory. That is desirable by everyone in the PoW space.
KawPoW is not core-based. It is in fact an Ethash derivative.
Ravencoin makes ASIC-resistance a priority. This is accomplished by utilizing the entire architecture of modern GPU so that designing competing specialized hardware is economically infeasible. Algorithms that are "memory hard" alone like verthash, ethash, and autolykos are not sufficient to keeping specialized hardware from being developed.
Check out these two articles from one of the ProgPoW developers:
https://medium.com/@ifdefelse/the-cost-of-asic-design-a44f9a065b72https://medium.com/@ifdefelse/understanding-progpow-performance-and-tuning-d72713898db3If you want to mine with less power you can accomplish this by adjusting the clock settings on your GPU. KawPoW consumes as much/little power as you want it to.