My opinion, among many parity features of XC vs. DRK there is one, 'instamine' that intrinsic to XC, and not intrinsic to DRK. People's psychology does not accept unjust feature such as 'instamine'. You may contradict with 'stake' feature. But to stake coins, one need buy them first, buying is not so psychologically comfortable, as minig on the equipment you already possess.
So I call on Dan to return the mining feature, and let XC be PoW coin again, at least 50% PoW, 50% PoS.
You forget that, for investors, one of the central features of XC is that its money supply is not being continually diluted by mining.
So no, we're not bringing back mining.
If there was even a hint of something like that I would dump my thousands in a heartbeat....and it would not only be me either. The coin price be under 80K in short order.