I think you have misunderstood Othe.  The announcement by the main dev/founder Bushido (as you have quoted) is clear. The dev team will do all they can to address the issues at hand - multipools and inflation.  However, it is not an easy task.  If they address the inflation factor alone by changing the block reward etc, it is not going to work.  Imagine say the block reward is reduced and the Vertcoin price increases in reaction.  What will happen then?  The multipools and those VTC-2-BTC dumpers will get to know about the good news and more of them will be attracted to the higher price (so that they can get more BTCs out of it).  The result is you will attract many more dumpers and the higher Vertcoin price can never hold.  Now we would not want that, would we?  

We have a Dev team who is very cautious about addressing critical issues we are facing.  And they are in active consultation with the community - see http://www.reddit.com/r/vertcoin/comments/2aav7b/tweaking_vertcoin_inflation  If you read this article, you will notice that the devs have something up their sleeves - called "Shark Bite Subsidy". But let's keep this a secret.

Hey, we just have a dev's AMA not too long ago! Now, how often do you see this kind of active. careful, thoughtful and willing-to-listen devs in the crypto world?  Don't we consider ourselves fortunate?