I know there's tons on the Dev's table right now, but I was hoping they might get a chance to investigate lowering the block reward much further after the event.

The lower it is, the more "power" the initial adopters have in helping the development. To be more clear, if the block reward is 100-500, offering up 100k CR for a payment or an event is a big deal. If the block reward remains astronomically high, the large holders of CR won't have as much ability to positively affect the coin using CR themselves. Just a thought.