I definitely would not say that. The botnet problem is understated if anything.
I was there for Monero launch on the first or second day and got 0 coins mining with two CPUs. There's just too much CPU power out there for really any CPU coin to be considered "fair" in the current environment. Same thing happened with that Cryptonite coin. Some guy posting about how he mined with 30 CPUs on the second day and got 0 coins. I mean come on, just how many CPUs is one supposed to own to be able to mine a CPU coin? These things are just charity events for botnets at the moment.
That's weird that our experiences are so different. I was using one i7 processor and got (>>10, <50) blocks with it the first week. Second week I threw about 4 more computers on it, with miserable processors (celerons/pentiums), leaving me with >50, <120 blocks mined after week 2 IIRC. After that, there wasn't much notable solo mining.