Regardless, it was never meant to compete with Bitcoin. It was meant to extend the functionality of the blockchain. The intentions for what Namecoin was meant to be are spelled out in the OP:
It is inspired by the bitdns discussion and recent failures of the DNS.
..........it's useful to be careful about falling into the "Vincent's Vision" trap. (This, incidentally, is a nice advantage that Namecoin's community has over Bitcoin's -- "Vincent's Vision" is generally only used as the punchline of jokes, whereas the cult of personality surrounding Satoshi is not healthy, to put it mildly.
...........the Namecoin community likes new ideas that are technically sound, and we don't evaluate technical soundness in terms of anything Vince wrote.
I think an argument could *maybe* be made that Vince's ........meant that he intended it to compete with Bitcoin (at least in some sense, e.g. competing for hashrate).
.......and we're not going to undo that, just like we're not going to compete with Bitcoin in any other way....
1) See number 3 below
2) You have driven away most namecoin supporters by pretending you are "the namecoin community".
3) Vinced was a bountyhunter not a visionary. But if Satoshi can be George Washington then sure, let's make vinced Thomas Jefferson. Make him spiritual advisor to the pope, give him a billion dollar yacht, an 11 inch dick and use a ouiji board to communicate with him.
4) Who is not going to compete with bitcoin? The namecoin community?
Namecoin is experimental software created for a payment. It's main improvement since it began is additional software created by domob. Numerous other people have sounded out creating more functionality, but "the namecoin community", both of you, or however many there are, shut them down.
What is your motive?