Unfortunately, You are wholly incorrect and misinformed.  This isn't mining at the beginning.  This is closer to cheating.  If the block reward would have stayed 500 coins per block and a new block every couple of seconds, then yes your statement would be correct.  But CHANGING THE RULES OF THE COIN to make it 1,200 times more difficult to mine a Darkcoin only AFTER you have mined 1.7 million coins is tantamount to a scam instamine.  And if it was a bug, then distributing those bugged coins to ALL the current miners would be the fairest approach.

Or you could even have a new coin launch specifically to replace the instamined coins so that everyone can have a fair shot.  If the Devs want this big problem to ever go away, then he just needs to do the Airdrop and be done with it.  I actually liked the idea of requiring everyone to first purchase DRK on the open markets.  Heck, even require everyone to first purchase 500 DRK in a special DRK savings account and even consider having some other stipulation that prevents them from selling their Airdropped holdings for a long time.  Not sure how you would do that part though other than a massive escrow.

Can you code coins with a sort of no transfer expiration date?  What I mean is Evan airdrops coins to all holders of 100 Dark before April 1st who also bought another 500DRK but those coins are unable to be sold until Q1 2015.  You probably can't but this would be a really cool feature in a coin.

This is going to keep being a problem for Darkcoin and represents a massive roadblock for Darkcoin going mainstream until the Dev just goes ahead and fixes it.