Did you really just stated that it's pure greed if somebody does not descend to levels of bribing exchanges to force the premature listing of a young coin?
I see this as a proof of how ethics turned upside down around altcoins: cheating, scamming, bribing, stealing all became publicly accepted standards. If you refuse to do either of these, you face public humiliation from those who you should have impaired.



Just to make this clear: all the updates since the initial release (up to this moment) were small cosmetic changes only, so the wallet update is not mandatory. You have nothing to fear if you haven't updated yet. The old wallet can still be used. There is no risk of forking and loosing coins (hard forks may or may not come in the future - but they will be properly advertised if they do). This update didn't change the coin itself, just the GUI.
But, of course, it doesn't hurt either. Better to keep up with passable updates than miss the mandatory ones.